Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to KnightUniversity of Missouri Press, 1982 - 174 Seiten |
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... Melville's character , at least in one instance , also seems to display Satan's sense of " injur'd merit " ( PL 1.98 ) . One journalist complained of the " natural impudence " of the original confidence ... Melville's Confidence Man.
... Melville's character , at least in one instance , also seems to display Satan's sense of " injur'd merit " ( PL 1.98 ) . One journalist complained of the " natural impudence " of the original confidence ... Melville's Confidence Man.
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... confidence , who at least on the sur- face appears to suffer from an equal , though less splenet- ic , obsession . The special quality of his obsession , coupled with his glad - handed eloquence , makes ... Melville's Confidence Man.
... confidence , who at least on the sur- face appears to suffer from an equal , though less splenet- ic , obsession . The special quality of his obsession , coupled with his glad - handed eloquence , makes ... Melville's Confidence Man.
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... Confidence - Man satirizes those passengers whose gullibility leads them to donate to false charities , invest in sham stocks , and purchase quack medicines . But the second half of this double - edged sat ... Melville's Confidence Man.
... Confidence - Man satirizes those passengers whose gullibility leads them to donate to false charities , invest in sham stocks , and purchase quack medicines . But the second half of this double - edged sat ... Melville's Confidence Man.
Inhalt
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 19 |
Chapter 3 | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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aboard the Fidèle acter Agatha ambiguous appears Autolycus barber Bergmann Black Guinea Black Rapids Coal central character Cervantes Cervantes's char charity Charlie Noble CHASCA China Aster confidence game confidence man's masquerade confidence men Confidence-Man cosmopoli cosmopolitan cream colors creation critics dence disguises Don Quixote Elizabeth Foster English Studies episode fiction fidence figure fool Frank Goodman fraud ge'mman George Caleb Bingham gray Hamlet Happy Tom Hawthorne herb doctor Herman Melville Hershel Parker Ibid Indian hater interpolated stories John Gould John Gould Fletcher John Ringman Jones Leon Howard literary Mark Winsome Melville's confidence merchant Milton mind Mississippi operator Missouri bachelor Moby-Dick mopolitan Moredock mute narrative narrator nature novel Oily original character original confidence Pierre Pitch play politan Psychological Novelist RICHARD Rapids Coal Company rogue role Satan satire seems Shakespeare significance SMYER soldier of fortune sort suggested swindle swindler tion title character transcendentalist traveling cap types of confidence Viardot ville's weed