Book contents
- The New Melville Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Melville Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations for Texts Cited
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Melville Studies, Old and New
- Part I Feeling with Melville
- Part II Thinking with Melville
- Chapter 7 Perfectionist Pierre
- Chapter 8 The Confidence-Man between Genres
- Chapter 9 Melville’s Style
- Chapter 10 Melville and the Conceits of Theory
- Chapter 11 Billy Budd: Pessimism for Post-Critique
- Chapter 12 Melville, Mardi, and Materialism
- Chapter 13 Popular Networks in Melville’s Battle-Pieces
- Chapter 14 The Biographical Re-Turn
- Chapter 15 Afterword “New,” “Old,” and “With”
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 11 - Billy Budd: Pessimism for Post-Critique
from Part II - Thinking with Melville
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2019
- The New Melville Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Melville Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations for Texts Cited
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Melville Studies, Old and New
- Part I Feeling with Melville
- Part II Thinking with Melville
- Chapter 7 Perfectionist Pierre
- Chapter 8 The Confidence-Man between Genres
- Chapter 9 Melville’s Style
- Chapter 10 Melville and the Conceits of Theory
- Chapter 11 Billy Budd: Pessimism for Post-Critique
- Chapter 12 Melville, Mardi, and Materialism
- Chapter 13 Popular Networks in Melville’s Battle-Pieces
- Chapter 14 The Biographical Re-Turn
- Chapter 15 Afterword “New,” “Old,” and “With”
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- The New Melville Studies , pp. 151 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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