" The title character of this novel overcomes his stutter to bellow his final words, "God bless Captain Vere!"
In Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Sedgwick writes that this novel anticipates the discourse surrounding the AIDS epidemic by presenting a fantasy of life "after the homosexual." A character in this novel repeatedly murmurs its protagonist's name as he bleeds out from a musket wound on the shore of Gibraltar. The protagonist declares that "I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist," in the ballad titled for him "in the Darbies" that ends this novel. In this novel, the old man Dansker warns the protagonist that "Jimmy Legs… is down on you." The title character of this novel overcomes his stutter to bellow his final words, "God bless Captain Vere!" seconds before being hanged for killing his master-at-arms Claggart. For 10 points, name this unfinished novel about a sailor accused of mutiny, written by Herman Melville.
In Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Sedgwick writes that this novel anticipates the discourse surrounding the AIDS epidemic by presenting a fantasy of life "after the homosexual.
Billy Budd [or Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative; or Billy Budd, Foretopman] &lt;Long Fiction&gt;