New Essays on Billy Budd (The American Novel) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521417783 ISBN 13: 9780521417785

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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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Review:

"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

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521417783
• ISBN 13: 9780521417785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Yannella Donald