Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales

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Michael Jonik is Senior Lecturer of American Literature in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex and was a Research Fellow at the Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris (2018-19). He recently published Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (2018), and he writes on pre-1900 American literature, continental philosophy, contemporary critical theory, radical politics and the history of science. He is founding member of The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA), and Reviews and Special Issues editor for the journal Textual Practice.

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A new edition of Herman Melville's tragic novella about the young sailor, Billy Budd, who falls victim to a petty jealousy and false accusations.