Melville s Short Novels（梅尔维尔短篇小说）

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.

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.

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Dan McCall is Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of the novels Jack the Bear (which was made into a movie starring Danny DeVito) and Triphammer. His monographs include The Silence of Bartleby and Citizens of Somewhere Else.

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Texts of Melville's Short Novels
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Benito Cereno
Billy Budd, Sailor
Contexts
BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER
Johannes Dietrich Bergmann "Bartleby" and "The Lawyer's Story"
H. Bruce Franklin Bartleby: The Ascetic's Advent
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Transcendentalist
BENITO CERENO
Amasa Delano A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, Chapter XVIII
Herman Melville [On Cannibals]
BILLY BUDD
Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne and Melville in Liverpool]
Robert M. Cover From Justice Accused
Criticism
BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER
Leo Marx Melville's Parable of the Walls
Elizabeth Hardwick From Bartleby in Manhattan
Dan McCall The Reliable Narrator
BENITO CERENO
Yvor Winters and Darrel Abel On Benito Cereno: Opposing Views
Epigraph to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Frederick Busch [Captain Delano]
Laurie Robertson-Lorant [Melville]
C. L. R. James [The Yankee Captain]
Glenn C. Mtschuler Whose Foot on Whose Throat? A Re-Examination of Melville's Benito Cereno
Allan Moore Emery The Topicality of Depravity in "Benito Cereno"
Robert Lowell Benito Cereno
Michael Rogin [Mutiny and Slave Revolt]
Richard E. Ray * "Benito Cereno": Babo as Leader
BILLY BUDD
Hershel Parker From The Plot of Billy Budd and the Politics of Interpreting It
Paul Bergman and Michael Asinow [On the Movie Billy Budd]
Tom Goldstein * Once Again, "Billy Budd" Is Standing ;Frial
Carolyn L. Karcher [Melville and Revolution]
Joyce Sparer Adler From Billy Budd and Melville's Philosophy of War
Mervyn Cooke [Homosexuality in Billy Budd]
Robert K. Martin Jr. [Is Vere a Hero?]
Ann Douglas [Father and Son in Billy Budd]
Thomas Mann [On Billy Budd]
Albert Camus [Melville's Lyricism]
Thomas J. Scorza * An Inside Narrative
Gordon Teskey The Bible in Billy Budd
Hannah Arendt [Compassion and Goodness]
Pauline Kael Billy Budd
NewtonArvin [Departure]
Selected Bibliography