Melville's short novels : authoritative texts, contexts, criticism /

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.,

Melville's short novels : authoritative texts, contexts, criticism / [print] selected and edited by Dan McCall. - first edition. - New York : Norton, (c)2002. - ix, 408 pages ; 21 cm. - A Norton critical edition . - A Norton critical edition. .



Bartleby, The Scrivener -- Benito Cereno -- Billy Budd, Sailor -- "Bartleby" and "The Lawyer's Story" Bartleby : The Ascetic's Advent The Transcendentalist A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, Chapter XVIII [On Cannibals] [Hawthorne and Melville in Liverpool] From Justice Accused Melville's Parable of the Walls From Bartleby in Manhattan The Reliable Narrator On Benito Cereno : Opposing Views Epigraph to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- [Captain Delano] [Melville] [The Yankee Captain] Whose Foot on Whose Throat? A Re-Examination of Melville's Benito Cereno -- The Topicality of Depravity in "Benito Cereno" Benito Cereno [Mutiny and Slave Revolt] "Benito Cereno" : Babo as Leader From The Plot of Billy Budd and the Politics of Interpreting It [On the Movie Billy Budd] Once Again, "Billy Budd" Is Standing Trial [Melville and Revolution] From Billy Budd and Melville's Philosophy of War [Homosexuality in Billy Budd] [Is Vere a Hero [Father and Son in Billy Budd] [On Billy Budd] [Melville's Lyricism] An Inside Narrative The Bible in Billy Budd [Compassion and Goodness] Billy Budd [Departure] Johannes Dietrich Bergmann -- H. Bruce Franklin -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Amasa Delano -- Herman Melville -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Robert M. Cover -- Leo Marx -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Dan McCall -- Yvor Winters and Darrel Abel -- Frederick Busch -- Laurie Robertson-Lorant -- C. L. R. James -- Glenn C. Altschuler -- Allan Moore Emery -- Robert Lowell -- Michael Rogin -- Richard E. Ray -- Hershel Parker -- Paul Bergman and Michael Asinow -- Tom Goldstein -- Carolyn L. Karcher -- Joyce Sparer Adler -- Mervyn Cooke -- Robert K. Martin Jr. -- Ann Douglas -- Thomas Mann -- Albert Camus -- Thomas J. Scorza -- Gordon Teskey -- Hannah Arendt -- Pauline Kael -- Newton Arvin.

Contains a collection of short novels by Herman Melville, with critical explanatory annotation, and includes the stories: "Bartleby, "The Scrivener", "Billy Budd", and "Benito Cereno."



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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation.


Sea stories, American--History and criticism.
Slave trade--Fiction.
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Copyists--Fiction.
Sailors--Fiction.

PS2382.M478.M458 2002