No Mysteries Out of OurselvesIn this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which to base personal and social relations. Using Typee, Pierre, White Jacket, Redburn, Billy Budd, and Moby Dick as models, Bellis isolates three forms of selfhoodthe integrity of the physical body, the son's genealogical link to his father, and the coherence of an autobiographical textthat Melville