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Billy Budd and Other Tales

Billy Budd and Other Tales more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He ...

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Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism

Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, Dan McCall (Editor)

Collected in this volume are "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "Billy Budd" - presented in the best texts available, those published during Herman Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author. Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. The ...

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Herman Melville: A Biography

Herman Melville: A Biography more books like this

by Professor Hershel Parker

This second and final volume of Hershel Parker's biography of Herman Melville begins with the publication of MOBY-DICK in 1851, and follows Melville--and the novel--through years of disappointing reviews and increasing obscurity. Unable to sustain a living by writing, Melville was forced to work at the Customs House in New York City, and never ...

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The Night Inspector

The Night Inspector more books like this

by Frederick Busch

William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, returns to New York City bent on reversing his fortunes. Busch's stunning novel is a gripping portrait of a nation trying to heal from the ravages of war and of one man's attempt to recapture a taste for life through the surging currents of his own emotions, ambitions, and shattered ...

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Billy Budd, Sailor

Billy Budd, Sailor more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He ...

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Melville: His World and Work

Melville: His World and Work more books like this

by Andrew Delbanco

Delbanco traces Melville's growth from bawdy storyteller through the spiritual preoccupations building up to "Moby-Dick," and the profound disillusionment of later works as he charts a life that left little evidence in its wake.

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Herman Melville: An Introduction

Herman Melville: An Introduction more books like this

by Wyn Kelley

This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in "Billy Budd" - 'a writer whom few know'. Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of "Moby-Dick", this book traces his development as a writer while providing the basic tools for successful critical reading of his novels. This title offers a ...

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick more books like this

by Stanley P Baldwin, M.A.

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Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville

Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville more books like this

by Harry Levin

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The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville more books like this

by Robert S Levine (Editor)

The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, ...

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Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism more books like this

by Wai-Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to ...

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Herman Melville more books like this

by Lewis Mumford

In this study of Herman Melville's life and thought, the author primarily relied on Melville's own writings, including his letters, and some of his notebooks. This work is singularly complete in that part of Melville which most matters: his ideas, his feelings, his urges, his vision of life. Wherever possible, the author uses Melville's own ...

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Subversive Genealogy more books like this

by Michael Paul Rogin

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Herman Melville more books like this

by Elizabeth Hardwick

The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public.

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Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America more books like this

by Gillian Brown

Gillian Brown explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class, and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity. She offers a new reading of writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, ...

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African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick more books like this

by Sterling Stuckey

Here is that rare work that in research and interpretation is original almost from beginning to end. For the first time we discover that slave music and dance are used by Melville in Moby-Dick in the creation of some of his most tragic and avant-garde art. Just as previously unknown African practices, found in travel accounts, reveal a powerful ...

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Correspondence: Volume Fourteen, Scholarly Edition more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, Professor Hershel Parker (Editor), Harrison Hayford (Editor)

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Herman Melville more books like this

by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor)

Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of the author of "Moby Dick".

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Moby Dick more books like this

by James L Roberts, PH.D.

-- Offers a traditional CliffNotes "TM" treatment of a literary novel, with updated and new content. -- Includes Life and Background of the Author, Introduction to the Novel, A Brief Synopsis, List of Characters, Critical Commentaries, Glossaries, Character Analyses, and Critical Essays. -- Enhanced by collaboration with Webster's New World "TM" ...

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The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville more books like this

by Kevin J Hayes

Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville's life and the historical ...

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Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man - Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer more books like this

by Loren Goldner

Herman Melville was a grand bourgeois, with aristocratic overtones, whose life path abruptly turned downward at 13 with the bankruptcy, madness, and death of his father in 1831. This new study reveals how Melville's literary works echo the idology of his day.

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Melville's Moby-Dick: An American Nekyia more books like this

by Edward F. Edinger

Dr. Edinger approaches Moby-Dick as a psychological document, a symbolic record of an intense inner experience which, like a dream, needs interpretation and elaboration of its images for their meaning to emerge fully. His exploration elucidates the psychological significance of the book, demonstrates the Jungian approach to symbolic material, and ...

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Moby-Dick: Ishmael's Mighty Book more books like this

by Kerry McSweeney

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Herman Melville A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work more books like this

by Carl Rollyson

An encyclopedic guide to the novelist includes entries on Melville's works and characters, influential events and social issues, friends and family, and journeys.

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Don't Call Me Ishmael more books like this

by Michael Gerard Bauer

Ninth-grader Ishmael Leseur knows it won't be long before his lame name makes him a target. But all that changes when James Scobie arrives. Now nothing will stop James and Ishmael in the toughest, weirdest, most embarrassingly awful . . . and the best year of their lives.

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