The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, those views that, respectively, support and critique Captain Vere but rather as challenging us to...
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The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, those views that, respectively, support and critique Captain Vere but rather as challenging us to experience the difficulty of making decisions in the world. The first part is devoted to an intensive examination of the evolution of the two testaments, including analyses of the three book-length studies of the novel, climaxing with Wenke's argument that the Genetic Text shows the novel's active pursuit of ambiguity. The second part analyzes the three maj
Cover; Contents; Introduction; C H A P T E R 1 The Text's View as Gateway to Billy Budd; P A R T I The Critical Heritage; C H A P T E R 2 Acceptance, Resistance, and the Struggle To Define Billy Budd; C H A P T E R 3 Brodtkorb: Language, Mystery, and the Acceptance of Annihilation; C H A P T E R 4 Scorza: Burke, Rousseau, and the Two Narratives of Billy Budd; C H A P T E R 5 Parker and the Incompleteness of Billy Budd; C H A P T E R 6 Garner: Finding the Kernel in the Shell; C H A P T E R 7 Wenke: Billy Budd and the Pursuit of Ambiguity
P A R T I I The Analyses C H A P T E R 8 Billy; C H A P T E R 9 Claggart; C H A P T E R 1 0 Captain Vere; The Meta-Dichotomies; Three Dichotomies; "Dreaminess" and the Master Dichotomy; Winch and the Private Conscience; C H A P T E R 1 1 The Moral World of Billy Budd; Works Cited; Index
