Yet the Angel Must Hang”
Billy Budd and Melville's Moral Skepticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10759441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Packer (University of South Carolina Upstate, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-107 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-1861 • E-ISSN: 2161-6302 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/soundings.102.1.0089 |
| OpenAlex | W2909140504 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
“Yet the Angel Must Hang” reflects on the mood of moral skepticism that pervades Billy Budd. This article examines several predicaments left unresolved by the end of the novel, including the narrator's ruminations on inherent conflicts within human nature, and his lamentations about the loss of spiritual wisdom among learned men of his generation. The story's defining collision between law and moral principle is analyzed with references to dilemmas confronting American judges during the antebellum period
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Hang · Period (music · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Skepticism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |