Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to KnightUniversity of Missouri Press, 1982 - 174 Seiten |
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... Melville probably patterned his man in cream colors after con- temporary confidence men . It was not uncommon for swindlers to pose as deaf - mutes ; William Avery Rocke- feller had done so , and apparently an impostor claiming to be ...
... Melville probably patterned his man in cream colors after con- temporary confidence men . It was not uncommon for swindlers to pose as deaf - mutes ; William Avery Rocke- feller had done so , and apparently an impostor claiming to be ...
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... Melville's confidence man in most of his manifes- tations was hardly an original character . His prototype had been widely hailed as an " original " in his actions , and the name was new , but the disguises Melville's confi- dence man ...
... Melville's confidence man in most of his manifes- tations was hardly an original character . His prototype had been widely hailed as an " original " in his actions , and the name was new , but the disguises Melville's confi- dence man ...
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... confidence . But Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy ( which provided Frye with his term for Menippean sat- ire ) had been an important influence on Mardi and was in Melville's mind soon after his completion of The Confidence - Man . He ...
... confidence . But Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy ( which provided Frye with his term for Menippean sat- ire ) had been an important influence on Mardi and was in Melville's mind soon after his completion of The Confidence - Man . He ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 19 |
Chapter 3 | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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aboard the Fidèle acter ambiguous appears Autolycus barber Bergmann Black Guinea Black Rapids Coal central character Cervantes Cervantes's chapter 44 char charity Charlie Noble China Aster confidence games confidence men Confidence-Man cosmopoli cosmopolitan cream colors creation Daniel Hoffman dence disguises Don Quixote Elizabeth Foster episode Evert Duyckinck faith fiction fidence figure fool Frank Goodman fraud ge'mman George Caleb Bingham gray Hamlet Hawthorne herb doctor Herman Melville Hershel Parker Ibid identified Indian hater interpolated stories Jay Leyda Jimmy Rose John Ringman Jones Leon Howard Leyda literary Mark Winsome Melville's confidence merchant Milton mind Mississippi operator Missouri bachelor Moby-Dick mopolitan Moredock mute narrative narrator novel Oily original character original confidence Pierre Pitch play Rapids Coal Company readers rogue role Satan satire Shakespeare significance soldier of fortune sort suggested swindle swindler tion title character transcendentalist traveling cap types of confidence Viardot ville's weed White-Jacket Winsome and Egbert writing