Paperback, 408 pages
English language
Published 2002 by Norton, W. W. Norton.
Melville's Short Novels
authoritative texts, contexts, criticism Norton Critical Editions
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Collected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd—presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author.
Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers.
As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"Criticism" includes twenty-eight essays about the novels sure to promote classroom discussion. Contributors include Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell, Herschel Parker, Carolyn L. Karcher, Thomas Mann, and Hannah Arendt.
A Selected Bibliography is included. -- www.wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393976410-melville-s-short-novels
Collected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd—presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author.
Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers.
As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"Criticism" includes twenty-eight essays about the novels sure to promote classroom discussion. Contributors include Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell, Herschel Parker, Carolyn L. Karcher, Thomas Mann, and Hannah Arendt.
A Selected Bibliography is included. -- www.wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393976410-melville-s-short-novels
Subjects
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Sea stories, American -- History and criticism
- Slave trade -- Fiction
- Sea stories, American
- Copyists -- Fiction
- Sailors -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction