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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book by Wake Forest University, the University of Warwick, and Dartmouth College.

The commentary presented here is continued and expanded on a website related to this book at ahabunbound.org.

The poem “The Lee Shore” by Steve Mentz was first published in Glasgow Review of Books in “Sailing without Ahab: An Eco-Poetic Voyage,” April 11, 2017, https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2017/04/11/sailing-without-ahab-an-eco-poetic-voyage/. An earlier version of chapter 6 was originally published as “Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain,” in Melville’s Philosophies, ed. Branka Arsić and K. L. Evans (Bloomsbury Academic, an Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017); reprinted by permission. Portions of chapter 14 are adapted from “‘Israel Potter’; or, the Excrescence,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 19, 2017; reprinted by permission of the Los Angeles Review of Books; passages of the essay were first published in Colin Dayan, The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).

Excerpts from Devo’s “Fraulein,” “Mechanical Man,” and “Recombo DNA” are reprinted with permission from Gerald Casale.

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