Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- NOTES -- 1 Billy Budd and American labor unrest: the case for striking back -- I -- II -- III -- NOTES -- 2 Religion, myth, and meaning in the art of Billy Budd, Sailor -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- NOTES -- 3 Old man Melville: the rose and the cross -- I -- II -- NOTEs -- 4 Melville's indirection: Billy Budd, the genetic text, and "the deadly space between" -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- NOTES -- Select bibliography -- Index.