Reading Billy Budd

In this study of Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor, " renowned Melville scholar Hershel Parker provides the fullest introduction to and analysis of this work to date. It is the first complete reading of "Billy Budd" to draw on the definitive but neglected Hayford-Sealts Genetic Text. For the first time [...]
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In this study of Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor, " renowned Melville scholar Hershel Parker provides the fullest introduction to and analysis of this work to date. It is the first complete reading of "Billy Budd" to draw on the definitive but neglected Hayford-Sealts Genetic Text. For the first time, it places "Billy Budd "in the context of Melville's writings and projects of the last decade of his life; and it is the first to present the work as a product of the post-Gilded Age and "fin-de-siecle "period rather than of the mid-century high romanticism of "Moby-Dick."