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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782957403321

Titolo

New essays on Billy Budd / / edited by Donald Yannella [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-11184-6

1-280-15174-9

0-511-11604-7

0-511-03939-5

0-511-14785-6

0-511-32571-1

0-511-61374-1

0-511-05259-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 151 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The American novel

Disciplina

813/.3

Soggetti

Sea stories, American - History and criticism

Executions and executioners in literature

Impressment in literature

Sailors in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.