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Billy Budd As Lae Masterpiece -- Part One: Unfinished Ms: From Writing-desk To Bread-box -- Melville And The Historical Background Pf Billy Budd -- Billy Budd In Melville's Late Literary Milieu -- Billy Budd In Melville's Working Life -- Preservation And Transcription -- Part Two: Billy Budd: From Foretopman To Sailor -- The Dynamics Of The Canonization Of Billy Budd, Foretopman -- Close-reading A Flawed Text -- Textual Curiosity In The New Critical 1950s -- The Hayford-sealts Edition (1962) -- Part Three: A Chapter-by-chapter Reading Of Billy Budd, Sailor -- The Plot Of Billy Budd And The Politics Of Interpreting It -- Starting At The End (the Ballad) -- Melville's First (and Faltering) Prose (chs. 1-2) -- Melville Gather Is Forces (ch.3) -- The Problematical Role Of Lord Nelson (chs. 4-5) -- Late-written Preparatory Scenes (chs. 6-7) Earlier-written Claggart Scenes (ch. 8-9) -- The Dansker--latecomer To The Claggart Scenes (ch. 10) -- Expansion Of The Portrait Of Claggart (chs. 11-13) -- Billy And Claggart (chs. 14-16) -- Melville Being Hawthornesque (ch. 17) -- The Accusation (ch. 18) -- The Confrontation (ch. 19) -- The Court Martial (chs. 20-21) -- The Private Meeting Of Billy

Author

Parker, Hershel

Publisher

Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810109612

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24