The Angel Must Hang: Billy Budd, Sailor, Compulsory Homosociality, and the Handsome Sailor
摘要
This chapter treats Billy Budd, Sailor, which Herman Melville left at his desk before his death on September 28, 1891, as not only the culmination of Melvillean treatments of fraternity and desire but also as a critique of antebellum sexual politicsMelville, Hermansexual politics, at a dispirited postbellum remove.