The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor. by 
The Garden of Leaders by
Melville’s Billy Budd is a natural-born leader. People follow him because his moral beauty is evident in his looks and in his behavior, but he does not know how or where to lead them. He is totally without education or experience of the world. He fails to recognize the evil that surrounds him once he is taken from the Eden of his childhood to the real world of a British warship. He is overly obedient to authority and does not know how to communicate under stress. The curriculum I propose in this book would have given him the essential knowledge he lacks.
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea by
The most comprehensive and authoritative reference book of its kind, the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea provides coverage of a huge range of topics, from shipbuilding, yachting, diving, marine engineering, and marine mammals, to smuggling, tsunamis, mermaids, and the language and literature of the sea.
Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 by
Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence.
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Tales by
A collection of seven critical essays on Melville's shorter works of fiction including "Billy Budd" and "The Piazza Tales."
Three Stories: Bartleby, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd by 
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.
Mourning, Gender, and Creativity in the Art of Herman Melville by 
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by 
A Companion to Melville Studies by 
Herman Melville by Herman Melville: The Tragic Vision and the Heroic Ideal by 
Melville's Allusions to Religion by 
