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New essays on Billy Budd / edited by Donald Yannella.
Van Pelt Library PS2384.B7 N49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American novel
- The American novel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd.
- Melville, Herman.
- Sea stories, American--History and criticism.
- Sea stories, American.
- Executions and executioners in literature.
- Impressment in literature.
- Sailors in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- A collection of essays providing a multifaceted introduction to Herman Melville??'s Billy Budd.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521417783
- 0521428297
- OCLC:
- 48397796
- Online:
- Publisher description
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