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Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's The Confidence-Man: Contributions to the Study of World Literature

Autor Jonathan A. Cook
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 1996
This valuable new addition to Melville studies offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Melville's last published novel, one of the most complex texts in American literature and a work that has long been noted for the divergent critical views it has elicited. Reading the novel as a generic hybrid of narrative satire and apolyptic vision, Cook situates the novel in its implicit theological, historical, and biographical contexts: he examines the novel's relation to Melville's heterodox ideas of the deity, to the increasingly commercialized cultural milieu of antebellum America, and to Melville's own life and literary career. Uncovering a wealth of new data on the novel's satirical applications, including its covert use of Melville's friends and family for character models, Cook offers a compelling reading of The Confidence-Man - one that is sure to influence our future conception of its creator.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313294044
ISBN-10: 0313294046
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions to the Study of World Literature

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Satirical Form: Parodic Masquerade
Historical Context: Mirror of Man
Allegorical Matrix: Mirror of God
Biographical Models: Fathers and Sons
Biographical Models: Literary Brethren
Interior Fables: Misanthropes and Philanthropists
Interpolated Essays: Apologia and Ars Poetica
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index