Understanding Melville's short fiction
Subtitle: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
By: Claudia Durst Johnson.
Series: The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Short story -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: xii, 231 p. : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bartleby the Scrivener : a story of Wall Street; title: Wall Street and the pursuit of wealth; title: Work without hope : the office worker; title: Worker resistance; title: Religious justification of Wall Street practices; title: Homeless; title: Agoraphobia; title: "Billy Budd" : acceptance or resistance?; title: The French Revolution; title: The clash of the Bellipotent and the Rights-of-Man : mutiny at the Spithead and the Nore; title: "Billy Budd", the Somers affair, and the Articles of War; title: The Mutiny Act and the Patriot Act.