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"Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick, and it is regularly taught in literature courses of all kinds. Melville wrote the novella during the five years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here investigate Billy Budd in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Yannella, Donald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:American novel.
Subjects:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Billy Budd.
Melville, Herman > 1819-1891 > Billy Budd
Melville, Herman.
Billy Budd (Melville, Herman)
Billy Budd.
Sea stories, American > History and criticism.
Executions and executioners in literature.
Impressment in literature.
Sailors in literature.
Récits de mer américains > Histoire et critique.
Presse (Marine ancienne) dans la littérature.
Marins dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Executions and executioners in literature
Impressment in literature
Sailors in literature
Sea stories, American
Litteratur > Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Billy Budd and American labor unrest : the case for striking back / Larry J. Reynolds
  • Religion, myth, and meaning in the art of Billy Budd, Sailor / Gail Coffler
  • Old man Melville : the rose and the cross / Robert Milder
  • Melville's indirection : Billy Budd, the genetic text, and "the deadly space between" / John Wenke.

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