New essays on Billy Budd /

Table of Contents: “…Billy Budd and American labor unrest : the case for striking back /…”
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Epistemology of the closet / by Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Axiomatic -- Epistemology of the closet -- Some binarisms (I): Billy Budd: after the homosexual -- Some binarisms (II): Wilde, Nietzsche, and the sentimental relations of the male body -- The beast in the closet: James and the writing of homosexual panic -- Proust and the spectacle of the closet.…”
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Britten's musical language / by Rupprecht, Philip Ernst

Table of Contents: “…Motive and narrative in Billy Budd --…”
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Fire on the water : sailors, slaves, and insurrection in early American literature, 1789-1886 / by Warren, Lenora

Table of Contents: “…The Black and White Sailor: Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode --…”
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Sacred uncertainty : religious difference and the shape of Melville's career / by Yothers, Brian, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"I too am uncertain" : the doubtful testament of Billy Budd and Melville's later poetry.…”
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The changes of Cain : violence and the lost brother in Cain and Abel literature / by Quinones, Ricardo J.

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Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon /

Table of Contents: “…Cataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology /…”
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Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville : essays in relation /

Table of Contents: “…Douglass, Melville, and the lynching of Billy Budd /…”
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Novels into film : adaptations & interpretations /

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Handsomely Done : Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville. by Radu Cucu, Sorin

Table of Contents: “…"A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered": The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd / David CopenhaferNecrophilology / Jacques Lezra; Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin's Orson Whales / John T. …”
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Fire on the Water Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 / by Warren, Lenora

Table of Contents: “…The Black and White Sailor: Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode -- Coda.…”
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After the whale : Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick / by Davis, Clark

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Moby-Dick and after -- Moby-Dick and the divided body -- Language and the ascetic body in Pierre and "Bartleby" -- Israel potter and the search for the hearth -- Part II: The limits of form -- Toward deception: the short fiction and the failing body -- Inverted worlds: "Benito Cereno" and The confidence-man -- Part III: Reshaping the lost debate -- The fissure in the hearth: Battle pieces -- Clarel and the search for divine body -- A question of distance: the late poetry -- Part IV: An open ending -- Billy Budd and the touch of a god.…”
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Melville's philosophies /

Table of Contents: “…Gospel Cetology / K.L. Evans -- 2. Billy Budd, Billy Budd / Stuart Burrows -- 3. Science, Philosophy, and Aesthetics in "The Apple-Tree Table" / Maurice S. …”

Protest and the body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston / by McGlamery, Tom

Table of Contents: “…BooK Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Reading a Man Like a Book: Bodies and Texts in Billy Budd; Chapter Three Producing Remembrance: John Dos Passos's Body in the Text; Chapter Four How it Feels to be Not-So-Young, Gifted, and Black: Passing and "De Change Uh Life" in Their Eyes Were Watching God; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Neither believer nor infidel : skepticism and faith in Melville's shorter fiction and poetry / by Cook, Jonathan A. 1953-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Legends of the fall: Genesis, Paradise Lost, Schopenhauer, Billy Budd.…”
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The poetics of protest : literary form and political implication in the victim-of-society novel / by Goodin, George

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A problem in composition -- The innocent victim: Oliver Twist, Ivan Denisovich, The dollmaker -- The virtuous victim: Les misérables, Billy Budd, The power and the glory, Uncle Tom's cabin -- The flawed victim: An American tragedy, L'Assommoir, Native son, The red and the black -- The pseudo victim: Catch-22, Ivan Chonkin, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Tobacco Road -- Permutations and combinations: Bleak House, Grapes of wrath, Fontamara, The fratricides -- Conclusion: Literary form and political implication.…”
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Cross-examinations of law and literature : Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville / by Thomas, Brook

Table of Contents: “…Individuals, judges, property -- The pioneers; or the sources of American legal history : a critical tale -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's legal story -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's romance of art -- Wage and chattel slavery -- "Benito Cereno" : Melville's narrative of repression -- A sentimental journey : escape from bondage in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Exploitation at home and at sea -- "Bartleby, the scrivener" : fellow servants and free agents on Wall Street -- Contracts and confidence men -- Billy Budd and re-righting legal history -- Measured forms -- Ragged edges.…”

Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the labors of American poetry : against vocation / by Riley, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Moby-Dick and the Shadows of the Poet -- Billy Budd and Melville's Retirement -- Part III: Hart Crane, Junior Copywriter. …”

Melville's philosophies /

Table of Contents: “…Evans; Part One World-Making; 1 Gospel Cetology K.L. Evans; 2 Billy Budd, Billy Budd Stuart Burrows; 3 Science, Philosophy, and Aesthetics in "The Apple-Tree Table" Maurice S. …”
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The war on words : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature / by Gilmore, Michael T.

Table of Contents: “…Speech and silence in Douglass -- Whitman: from sayer-doer to sayer-copyist -- Slit throats in Melville -- "Speak, man!": Billy Budd in the crucible of Reconstruction -- Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Postbellum. …”
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