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The confidence-man : his masquerade : an authoritative text, contemporary reviews, biographical overviews, sources, backgrounds, and criticism / Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Mark Niemeyer.
- Title
- The confidence-man : his masquerade : an authoritative text, contemporary reviews, biographical overviews, sources, backgrounds, and criticism / Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Mark Niemeyer.
- Author
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co, c2006.
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- Description
- xv, 505 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Presents the authoritative text of Herman Melville's classic work "The Confidence Man;" and contains textual and explanatory notes, contemporary reviews and critical essays, and biographical overviews.
- "The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected. 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." -- Publisher's description
- Series Statement
- Norton critical edition
- Uniform Title
- Norton critical edition
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Satire.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Fiction
- Satire
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-505).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The text of The Confidence-Man -- Contemporary reviews -- Biographical overviews -- Backgrounds, sources, and criticism.
- ISBN
- 039397927X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2005052326
- OCLC
- 61240780
- SCSB-10779518
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library