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The Confidence-Man (Norton Critical Editions) Book

The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions."Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers.A new section, "Biographical Overviews," embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melville’s life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville’s life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others."Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism" is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and social developments central to Melville’s America and to this novel, including utopias, cults, cure-alls, Transcendentalism, Indian hating, the Bible, and popular literature.A Selected Bibliography is also included.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Features the text of The Confidence-Man. This second edition features explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. Contemporary reviews, biographical overviews, sources, backgrounds, and criticism are included. The Second Edition...

  • Pickabook

    Herman Melville, Hershel Parker (Editor), Mark Niemeyer (Editor)

  • 039397927X
  • 9780393979275
  • H Melville
  • 17 February 2006
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 608
  • 2nd Revised edition
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