"Yet the Angel Must Hang" Billy Budd and Melville's Moral Skepticism

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作者：
Packer, Mark [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ South Carolina Upstate, Ctr Interdisciplinary Studies, Spartanburg, SC 29303 USA
来源：
SOUNDINGS | 2019年 / 102卷 / 01期
关键词：
Melville; Billy Budd; natural law theory; fugitive slave cases; moral skepticism;
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C [社会科学总论];
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03 ; 0303 ;
摘要：
"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.
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