Preface

The Text of Melville's Short Novels
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Benito Cereno
Billy Budd

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 - Chapter XVIII of Narrative of Voyages
and Travels
Herman Melville - [On Executions]
Billy Budd
Nathaniel Hawthorne - [A Visit with Melville]
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. Altschuler - 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 Hero
Billy Budd
Hershel Parker - From The Plot of Billy Budd and the
Politics of

Interpreting It
Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow - [On the Movie Billy
Budd]
Tom Goldstein - Once Again, "Billy Budd" Is Standing
Trial
Carolyn L. Karcher - [Melville and Revolution]
Joyce Sparer Adler - From Billy Budd and Melville's
Philosophy of War
Mervyn Cooke and Philip Reed - From Herman Melville's
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
Newton Arvin - [Departure]

Selected Bibliography

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