Billy Budd

Billy Budd Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • The Genesis of Billy Budd
  • The Unity of Billy Budd
  • Expediency and Absolute Morality in Billy Budd
  • The Hanging Scene in Melville's Billy Budd
  • The Hanging Scene in Melville's Billy Budd: A Reply to Mr. Giovannini
  • Billy Budd: Two Concepts of Nature
  • Billy Budd
  • Billy Budd: The Catastrophe of Innocence
  • Billy Budd as Moby Dick: An Alternate Reading
  • Billy Budd: Testament of Resistance
  • Billy Budd: The Nightmare of History
  • Billy Budd: The Plot against the Story
  • The Problem of Billy Budd
  • Billy Budd: Political Philosophies in a Sea of Thought
  • The Narrative Voice in Billy Budd
  • Vere's Use of the ‘Forms’: Means and Ends in Billy Budd
  • Billy Budd: A Psychological Autopsy
  • The Measured Forms of Captain Vere
  • ‘Something Healing’: Fathers and Sons in Billy Budd
  • Final Flowering
  • A New Look at Melville's Claggart
  • Captain Vere and Upper-Class Mores in Billy Budd
  • ‘Too Good to Be True’: Subverting Christian Hope in Billy Budd
  • The Cross of Consciousness: Billy Budd
  • Billy Budd: Reclaimed by the Nineteenth Century
  • An Allegory of America in Melville's Billy Budd
  • Billy Budd: A Reconsideration
  • Keeping True: Billy Budd, Sailor
  • The Dynamics of the Canonization of Billy Budd, Foretopman
  • The Protagonists' Rainbow in Billy Budd: Critical Trimming of Truth's Ragged Edges
  • The Fate of a Story
  • Melville's Handsome Sailor: The Anxiety of Innocence
  • Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Three Centuries
  • The Impressments of Billy Budd
• Further Reading