內容簡介
This Norton Critical Edition presents three of Melville's most important short novels--Bartleby, The Scrivener; Benito Cereno; and Billy Budd. The texts are accompanied by ample explanatory annotation.
As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" offers selections from works that influenced Melville's writing of these three short novels, including, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Transcendental-ist" and Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages aud Travels.Johannes Dietrich Bergmann, H.Bruce Franklin, and Robert M.Cover provide overviews of Melville's probable sources.
An unusually rich "Criticism" section includes twenty-eight wide-ranging pieces that often contradict one another and that are sure to promote classroom discussion. Among the contributors are Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Freder-ick Busch, Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Robert Lowell, C. L. R. James, Allan Moore Emery, Michael Rogin, Hershel Parker,Ann Douglas, Joyce Sparer Adler, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Hannah Arendt, Pauline Kael, and Dan McCall.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" offers selections from works that influenced Melville's writing of these three short novels, including, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Transcendental-ist" and Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages aud Travels.Johannes Dietrich Bergmann, H.Bruce Franklin, and Robert M.Cover provide overviews of Melville's probable sources.
An unusually rich "Criticism" section includes twenty-eight wide-ranging pieces that often contradict one another and that are sure to promote classroom discussion. Among the contributors are Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Freder-ick Busch, Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Robert Lowell, C. L. R. James, Allan Moore Emery, Michael Rogin, Hershel Parker,Ann Douglas, Joyce Sparer Adler, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Hannah Arendt, Pauline Kael, and Dan McCall.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
