About the Author

John Bryant is a leading Melville scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at Hofstra University. He is the author of A Companion to Melville Studies, Melville and Repose, The Fluid Text, Melville Unfolding, and over 70 articles on Melville and related nineteenth-century writers. He is the founder and Editor Emeritus of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, and founder and Director of the Melville Electronic Library. He received the Distinguished Editor Award from Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2015.