Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to KnightUniversity of Missouri Press, 1982 - 174 Seiten |
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... Man in either subject matter or spirit , for his book would have more to do with the examina- tion of other men's folly than his own . х Melville had displayed his interest in swindles and swindlers at Significances 11.
... Man in either subject matter or spirit , for his book would have more to do with the examina- tion of other men's folly than his own . х Melville had displayed his interest in swindles and swindlers at Significances 11.
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... tion , adapts chameleonlike to the colors of any given situation . Presumably , that sort of rogue would possess those characteristics that Melville attributed to a class of fictional characters and by implication to the cosmo- politan ...
... tion , adapts chameleonlike to the colors of any given situation . Presumably , that sort of rogue would possess those characteristics that Melville attributed to a class of fictional characters and by implication to the cosmo- politan ...
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... tion and wealth ; both were forced to their travels and adventures - Cervantes as soldier , Melville as sailor . Cer- vantes , too , suffered wounds and captivity , as Melville had in the Marquesas , and when both finally returned to ...
... tion and wealth ; both were forced to their travels and adventures - Cervantes as soldier , Melville as sailor . Cer- vantes , too , suffered wounds and captivity , as Melville had in the Marquesas , and when both finally returned to ...
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