Donald Yannella (ed.)

New Essays on Billy Budd

Herausgeber: Yannella, Donald

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays providing a multifaceted introduction to Herman Melville's Billy Budd.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780521428293
• ISBN-10: 0521428297
• Artikelnr.: 21844233

Autorenporträt

Donald Yannella is the author of American Prose to 1820 (1979), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982), The Perfect Prodigy Melville on the Birth of Malcolm (1986) and Herman Melville''s Malcolm Letter (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Donald Yannella
1. Melville's indirection: Billy Budd, the Genetic text, and 'the deadly space between' John Wenke
2. Billy Budd and American labour unrest: the case for striking back Larry J. Reynolds
3. Religion, myth and meaning in the art of Billy Budd, Sailor Gail Coffler
4. Old man Melville: the rose and the cross R. Milder
Selected Bibliography.