Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)

Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)

<p><strong>Collected in this volume are <em>Bartleby the Scrivener</em>, <em>Benito Cereno</em>, and <em>Billy Budd</em>―presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author.</strong></p> Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> "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.<br /><br /> A Selected Bibliography is included.