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Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's the Confidence-Man

Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's the Confidence-Man

Cook, Jonathan A.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature, Book 67

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0313294046
ISBN13: 9780313294044
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Apr 30 1996
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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