| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 408 pages ; 21 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-408). |
| Contents |
The Texts of Melville's Short Novels -- Bartleby, The Scrivener -- Benito Cereno -- Billy Budd, Sailor -- Contexts -- Bartleby, The Scrivener -- "Bartleby" and "The Lawyer's Story" / Johannes Dietrich Bergmann -- Bartleby : The Ascetic's Advent / H. Bruce Franklin -- The Transcendentalist / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Benito Cereno -- A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, Chapter XVIII / Amasa Delano -- [On Cannibals] / Herman Melville -- Billy Budd -- [Hawthorne and Melville in Liverpool] / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- From Justice Accused / Robert M. Cover -- Criticism -- Bartleby, The Scrivener -- Melville's Parable of the Walls / Leo Marx -- From Bartleby in Manhattan / Elizabeth Hardwick -- The Reliable Narrator / Dan McCall -- Benito Cereno -- On Benito Cereno : Opposing Views / Yvor Winters and Darrel Abel -- Epigraph to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- [Captain Delano] / Frederick Busch -- [Melville] / Laurie Robertson-Lorant -- [The Yankee Captain] / C.L.R. James -- Whose Foot on Whose Throat? / Glenn C. Altschuler -- A Re-Examination of Melville's Benito Cereno -- The Topicality of Depravity in "Benito Cereno" / Allan Moore Emery -- Benito Cereno / Robert Lowell -- [Mutiny and Slave Revolt] / Michael Rogin -- "Benito Cereno" : Babo as Leader / Richard E. Ray -- Billy Budd -- From The Plot of Billy Budd and the Politics of Interpreting It / Hershel Parker -- [On the Movie Billy Budd] / Paul Bergman and Michael Asinow -- Once Again, "Billy Budd" Is Standing Trial / Tom Goldstein -- [Melville and Revolution] / Carolyn L. Karcher -- From Billy Budd and Melville's Philosophy of War / Joyce Sparer Adler -- [Homosexuality in Billy Budd] / Mervyn Cooke -- [Is Vere a Hero?] / Robert K. Martin Jr. -- [Father and Son in Billy Budd] / Ann Douglas -- [On Billy Budd] / Thomas Mann -- [Melville's Lyricism] / Albert Camus -- An Inside Narrative / Thomas J. Scorza -- The Bible in Billy Budd / Gordon Teskey -- [Compassion and Goodness] / Hannah Arendt -- Billy Budd / Pauline Kael -- [Departure] / Newton Arvin. |
| Summary |
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." |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
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New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Slave trade -- Fiction.
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Sea stories, American.
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Copyists -- Fiction.
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Sailors -- Fiction.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 (OCoLC)fst00030216
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Copyists. (OCoLC)fst00878705
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Sailors. (OCoLC)fst01103543
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Sea stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01110125
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Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
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New York (State) -- New York.
(OCoLC)fst01204333
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| Genre/Form |
Sea fiction. (OCoLC)fst01939795
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Sea fiction.
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| Added Author |
McCall, Dan.
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| ISBN |
0393976416 (pbk.) |
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9780393976410 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
9780393976410 |
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99954200356 |
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