Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions)

pstrongCollected in this volume are emBartleby the Scrivener/em, emBenito Cereno/em, and emBilly Budd/em—presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author./strong/pEach 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.