Contents xv
The Scarlet Letter 1388
Preface to Second Edition 1388
The Custom-House 1389
The Scarlet Letter 1413
Herman Melville (1819—1891) 1524
Hawthorne and His Mosses 1526
Bartleby the Scrivener 1533
Benito Cereno 1558
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War 1610
The Portent 1610
Misgivings 1611
The March into Virginia 1611
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Flight 1612
Shiloh 1613
Malvern Hill 1613
The House-Top 1314
The College Colonel 1615
The Uninscribed Monument 1616
John Marr and Other Sailors 1616
The Good Craft “Snow-Bird” 1616
Old Counsel 1617
Timoleon 1618
After the Pleasure Party 1618
The Maldive Shark 1622
Monody 1622
Lone Founts 1622
Art 1623
Greek Architecture 1623
Billy Budd, Sailor 1623
The Humanitarian Sensibility and the Inevitable Conflict 1675
Democracy and Social Reform 1675
Inevitable Conflict 1677
Timeline: The Humanitarian Sensibility and the Inevitable Conflict 1680
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) 1681
A Psalm of Life 1683
The Arsenal at Springfield 1684