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American Literary Scholarship (2007) 2005 (1): 55–74.
Published: 01 September 2007
... publications,
as usual, Moby-Dick receives the most attention, and little significant
appears on the poetry, the less-read novels, or even the stories, with the
exception of “Benito Cereno.” It is a banner year for Billy Budd criticism,
however, both in single-text articles and in two books...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2005) 2003 (1): 47–64.
Published: 01 September 2005
...John Samson Duke University Press 2005 3 Melville
John Samson
Moby-Dick continues to be receive the most scrutiny, with this year’s
publications including two books and a special issue of Leviathan. ‘‘Bar-
tleby, the Scrivener’’ and Billy Budd, Sailor are also the focus...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 37–45.
Published: 01 September 2022
... social fabric not necessarily suspensions of reality or mere 40 Melville authorial fantasy. In a consonant essay , Billy Budd: The Eromenos Has to Die ( pp. 9 27), Édouard Marsoin reads Billy Budd not only as the birthplace of modern homosexuality, but also as the deathbed of classical pederasty...
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American Literary Scholarship (2000) 1998 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 September 2000
... an extensive and revealing analysis of Billy Budd, Sailor, considered as part of a contemporaneous recuperation of sacrifice that engaged sociologists . . . theologians . . . and literary authors Nicholas O. Warner in Too Sober or Too Drunken: Melville s Di- alogics of Drink pp. 155 78 in Spirits...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2003) 2001 (1): 49–65.
Published: 01 September 2003
... the
poetry, and Billy Budd, Sailor were the focus of substantial critical atten-
tion. Two notable collections appeared: a special double issue of ESQ (46,
i–ii [2000]) on ‘‘ The Hawthorne-Melville Relationship ed. Robert K.
Martin and Leland S. Person; and Melville ‘‘Among the Nations’’ : Proceed...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2004) 2002 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 September 2004
...John Samson Duke University Press 2004 3 Melville
John Samson
This year sees the publication of several book-length projects devoted to
Melville: biography, criticism, and a collection of new essays on Billy
Budd. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies (4, i–ii...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2013) 2011 (1): 35–59.
Published: 01 September 2013
...
of “American exceptionalism” in Billy Budd.
i Biographies, Editions, and Reference Works
In “Melville Reviews and Notices, Continued” (Leviathan 13, i: 88–115)
Scott Norsworthy collects 78 new reviews, notices, and mentions dis-
covered by Richard E. Winslow III mostly in microfilms of 19th-century...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 37–53.
Published: 01 September 2015
... understanding of democracy with that of Alexis de Tocqueville,
Peter Norberg 39
focusing on the paradoxical yet creative tension between equality and
sovereignty in American democratic culture. Tracking Melville’s fig-
ures of democracy from Redburn to Billy Budd, Greiman concludes
that “the power...
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American Literary Scholarship (2001) 1999 (1): 53–70.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to Jakob in Franz Grillparzer’s
1847 story ‘‘Der Arme Spielmannadding nothing new to the body of
‘‘Bartleby’’ criticism. Ann Smock in ‘‘Tongue-Tied: Blanchot, Melville,
Des Forêts’’ (MLN 114: 1037–61) reads ‘‘Bartleby’’ and Billy Budd, Sailor
in light of Maurice Blanchot’s formulation...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and
abroad. “Texts” covers all the major writings, either combining several
works in one essay or providing intensive readings of single texts, as with
Moby-Dick, Clarel, and Billy Budd. A final short section, “Meanings,”
examines the growth of Melville’s reputation, his influence on contem-
porary...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2021) 2019 (1): 33–51.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that ranks as one of the truly great achievements of American literary scholarship. In , Northwestern had con dently predicted that all books would be available in four years. e last of them to appear, Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Uncompleted Writings, nally emerged in . In an appro- priately celebratory...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2010) 2008 (1): 43–66.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Fathers, Devoted Sons, and the Patriarchal Pieties of
Melville and Douglass,” pp. 300–336 in Frederick Douglass and Herman
Melville, where a family tintype of Malcolm Melville in uniform omi-
nously connects his death to Billy Budd. Wallace identifies in Herman
a Vere-like “repressed filicidal...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 33–47.
Published: 01 September 2016
... relationship with Hawthorne, this failure does not detract from
the strength of his comparative analysis of Hawthorne’s and Melville’s
critical engagement with Emerson’s ideas.
44 Melville
vi Short Fiction and Billy Budd
In “Melville’s Liminal Bachelor and the Making of Middle-Class Man-
hood...
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American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 45–66.
Published: 01 September 2011
...” by a group of Polish critics provides further evidence of
that story’s rise to prominence internationally. Two excellent essays on
“Benito Cereno”; a new reading of Billy Budd in the context of Recon-
struction; and a probing examination of measure and commemoration
in Battle-Pieces are further...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 49–68.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., an examination of blackface minstrelsy in “Benito Cereno,”
and the usual ambivalent probings into Billy Budd round out the best
of this year’s scholarship.
i Biographies, Editions, and Reference Works
The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville, ed. Kevin Hayes (Cam-
bridge), offers a compact review...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2012) 2010 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 September 2012
...
book-length study of Billy Budd that combines New Historicist and
New Critical approaches.
i Biographies, Editions, and Reference Works
Gary Scharnhorst reports on his discovery of 15 previously unknown
works by Julian Hawthorne that mention Melville in “ ‘He Was Known
to Us as Mr. Omoo...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 33–44.
Published: 01 September 2017
...-
Pieces and Clarel, and he concludes his study with a final chapter on
John Marr, Timoleon, and Billy Budd. Yothers’s monograph situates
Melville’s concern with religious belief in the context of the increasing
secularization of society that occurred in the United States and Europe
over...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2006) 2004 (1): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2006
...
Rolfe and Clarel. While Melville disagreed with Arnold’s optimism, he
nevertheless shared his dim view of the masses and thus directed Clarel
toward an audience of the “intellectual elite in an effort to ‘educate the
educators.’ ”
In “Reading a Man Like a Book: Bodies and Texts in Billy Budd...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2014) 2012 (1): 33–49.
Published: 01 September 2014
... other fiction from “Benito Cereno” to Billy Budd,
Sailor. His approach has affinities with Wai Chee Dimock’s model of
“incomplete” reading, and convincingly demonstrates that “an oral her-
meuetical orientation can provide a richer understanding of Melville’s
celebrated ‘art of truth-telling...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 31–43.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to the previously made claims that
the The Scarlet Letter focuses on psychological evil, arguing that Haw-
thorne also examines the implications of social evil with the character
Mistress Hibbins.
Michael T. Gilmore’s “ ‘Speak, Man Billy Budd in the Crucible of
Reconstruction” (AmLH 21: 492–517) discusses...
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