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The Disruption of Forms in Billy Budd

textual authority. I would like to follow that lead, but the textual authority to which I refer in this article is not theirs; rather it is the fiction of textuality within the text. The history of the text both doubles and covers the fiction that I would like to consider, and I want, at the outset, to put it aside. Like the tale itself, this network of fictive textuality is an inside narrative, and it is largely a narrative about history. Billy Budd explicates and involves both the signifier and the referent of history: both the various reliabilities of sources, historiographical perception, the historical intellect and imagination, the scope and form of historical structure, and language itself, as well as the presence of history, the living event. In this last work, history is always already written and, therefore, corrupted in the making, and all arguments that invoke what was and what might have been are helplessly refracted in the web of their originating culture. With very few exceptions, critics of Melville's tale have taken its expressibility for granted. Once the outside question of the text is mooted, they have treated Billy Budd as if it possessed a narrative selfevidence upon which arguments as to sincerity or irony or even

"Something Healing": Fathers and Sons in Billy Budd

Research Article| December 01 1979 "Something Healing": Fathers and Sons in Billy Budd Peter L. Hays, Peter L. Hays Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Richard Dilworth Rust Richard Dilworth Rust Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1979) 34 (3): 326–336. https://doi.org/10.2307/2933331 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Peter L. Hays, Richard Dilworth Rust; "Something Healing": Fathers and Sons in Billy Budd. Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1 December 1979; 34 (3): 326–336. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2933331 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1979 Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative by Herman Melville

Book Review| July 01 1964 Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative by Herman Melville Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative. By Melville, Herman. Ed. by Hayford, Harrison; Sealts, Merton M.Jr., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. ix, 432. $8.00. William Charvat William Charvat The Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1964) 63 (3): 440. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-63-3-440 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William Charvat; Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative by Herman Melville. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1964; 63 (3): 440. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-63-3-440 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press1964 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor. An Inside Narrative. Reading Text and Genetic Text. Edited from the Manuscript with Introduction and Notes by HARRISON HAYFORD and MERTON M. SEALTS. Pp. x+432. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1962. 64s. net. DOUGLAS GRANT DOUGLAS GRANT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume XV, Issue 58, 1964, Pages 214–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/XV.58.214 Published: 01 April 1964

BILLY BUDD: SAILOR (AN INSIDE NARRATIVE) BY HERMAN MELVILLE: READING TEXT AND GENETIC TEXT, EDITED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1962; pp. ix, 432, and 8 plates; 64s

BILLY BUDD: SAILOR (AN INSIDE NARRATIVE) BY HERMAN MELVILLE: READING TEXT AND GENETIC TEXT, EDITED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1962; pp. ix, 432, and 8 plates; 64s