Introduction: Herman Melville's blue-jean career
1. So unspeakably significant: Melville, Hawthorne and the shawls
2. A very strange compound indeed: Carlyle, Redburn and White-Jacket
3. He was an European, and had clothes on: Typee
4. The dress befitted the fate: Israel Potter's Lives
5.These buttons that we wear: Billy Budd.
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Melville : fashioning in modernity by Stephen Matterson. ISBN 9781623562007. Published by Bloomsbury in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
