AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast

Ep. 5.2 Reading Herman Melville


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Ep. 2 of 4 on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor.  Evaluate how critical conversation on Billy Budd maps onto the structure of the plot with the shifting emphasis fom Billy to Claggart, and then Vere. Did Vere have to hold the drumhead court? See Introduction of Heyford and Sealts edition, see also Toni Morrison on book’s opening digression
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AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History PodcastBy Prof. O'Malley