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Works of Herman Melville: A Note On The Background Of Billy Budd

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Melville, Herman

Melville, Herman
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
A Note On The Background Of Billy Budd:

Written during the last years of Melville's life, Billy Budd in some
respects represents a resolving of some of the problems which had beset
Melville during his life. Always concerned with the place and welfare of man
in a universe naturally hostile, and made even more so by the rising
industrial revolution (which led to the economic upheavals of 1873-1879),
Melville explores in Billy Budd the tragedy of man's inability to cope with
the difficulties of his own creation. In those late years of his life
following ...

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