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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    02 December 2009
    25 July 2002
    ISBN:
    9780511613746
    9780521417785
    9780521428293
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613746
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.33kg, 168 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.2kg, 166 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
    Series:
    The American Novel
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
    Series:
    The American Novel
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    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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    "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

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