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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      25 July 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511613746
      9780521417785
      9780521428293
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613746
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 168 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.2kg, 166 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
      Series:
      The American Novel
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
    Series:
    The American Novel
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    Book description

    Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the 5 years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to the work. Areas investigated include nineteenth-century political and social dynamics and the literary response they provoked, as well as the relevance of mythology and the histories of classical world and Judaeo-Christian civilization to Melville's book. Also examined are Melville's later writing, including the late poetry, the text's development, and its ambiguities. This collection will prove an invaluable resource for students of this major American writer.

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    "The collection as a whole as well as every contributor meets the highest standard of textual criticism and may exemplify the classic principles of carrying on polemics." American Studies International

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    Anderson, Charles Roberts. “The Genesis of Billy Budd.” American Literature 12 (1940): 329–46
    Berthoff, Warner. The Example of Melville. Princeton University Press, 1962
    Bryant, John. Melville Dissertations, 1924–1980: An Annotated Bibliography and Subject Index. Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1980
    Cohen, Hennig, and Donald Yannella. Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter: “Man's Final Lore.” New York: Fordham University Press and The New York Public Library, 1992
    Fogle, Richard Harter. “Billy Budd – Acceptance or Irony.” Tulane Studies in English 8 (1958): 107–13
    Fogle, Richard Harter. “Billy Budd: The Order of the Fall.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 15 (1960): 189–205. Rpt. Milder
    Garner, Stanton. “Fraud as Fact in Herman Melville's Billy Budd.” San Jose Studies 4 (1978): 82–105
    Hayford, Harrison, ed. The Somers Mutiny Affair. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959
    Hays, Peter L., and Rust, Richard Dilworth. “‘Something Healing’: Fathers and Sons in Billy Budd.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 34 (1979): 326–36
    Higgins, Brian. Herman Melville: A Reference Guide, 1931–1960. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1987
    Milder, Robert, ed. Critical Essays on Melville's “Billy Budd, Sailor.” Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1989
    Miller, Edwin Haviland. Melville. New York: Braziller, 1975
    Murray, Charles. “A Concordance to Melville's Billy Budd.” PhD Diss., Miami University, 1979
    Parker, Hershel. Reading Billy Budd. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1990
    Reich, Charles A. “The Tragedy of Justice in Billy Budd.” Yale Review 56 (1967) 368–89. Rpt. Milder
    Rosenberry, Edward H. “The Problem of Billy Budd.” PMLA 80 (1965): 489–98
    Scorza, Thomas J. In the Time before Steamships: Billy Budd, the Limits of Politics, and Modernity. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University, 1979
    Sealts, Merton M., Jr. “Innocence and Infamy: Billy Budd, Sailor.” In John Bryant, ed. A Companion to Melville Studies. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986: 407–30
    Sealts, Merton M., Jr. Pursuing Melville: Chapters and Essays. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982
    Springer, Haskell, comp. The Merrill Studies in Billy Budd. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1970
    Stafford, William T., ed. Melville's Billy Budd and the Critics. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1968
    Stern, Milton R., ed. and introd. Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975
    Thompson, Lawrance. Melville's Quarrel with God. Princeton University Press, 1952
    Vincent, Howard P., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Billy Budd: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971
    Widmer, Kingsley. “The Perplexed Myths of Melville: Billy Budd.” Novel 2 (1968): 25–35
    Willett, Ralph W. “Nelson and Vere: Hero and Victim in Billy Budd, Sailor.” PMLA 82 (1967): 370–76
    Withim, Phil. “Billy Budd: Testament of Resistance.”Modern Language Quarterly 20 (1959): 115–27

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