The Confidence-man: His MasqueradeDalkey Archive Press, 2007 - 355 páginas A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress. Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. It's an edition we have long admired. More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first postmodern novel--game-like, darkly comic, and completely inventive. |
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... CHARACTERS , AUTHOR xvi BLACK GUINEA'S LIST XX The Confidence - Man AS MYTH xxiv Chronology of Melville's Life xxix Selected Bibliography BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM OF The Confidence - Man Note on the Text xxxi xxxi xxxi xxxiv THE ...
... . Inquest into the true character of the Herb - Doctor . 124 19. A soldier of fortune . 129 20. Reappearance of one who may be remembered . 140 21. A hard case . 146 22. In the polite spirit of the Tusculan disputations . iv CONTENTS.
... CHARACTERS , AUTHOR The Confidence - Man makes many extraordinary demands on the reader . By reference , allusion ... characters . Furthermore , some of these characters are caricatures of historical personages ( such as Diogenes xvi ...
His Masquerade Herman Melville Howard Bruce Franklin. characters are caricatures of historical personages ( such as Diogenes , Cooper , Socrates , Emerson , Timon , Thoreau , Poe ) and others represent mythic figures ( such as Manco ...
... character is going to be playing tricks on other characters ; he may even suspect that the author is going to be playing tricks on him . But will he suspect the possibility that each physical object and action may be an All- Fools ...
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At the outset of which certain passengers prove deaf to the call of charity | 42 |
A gentleman with gold sleevebuttons | 50 |
A charitable lady | 61 |
The Cosmopolitan makes an acquaintance | 196 |
Containing the metaphysics of Indianhating according to the views of one evidently not so prepossessed as Rousseau in favor of savages | 203 |
Some account of a man of questionable morality but who nevertheless would seem entitled to the esteem of that eminent English moralist who said h... | 215 |
Moot points touching the late Colonel John Moredock | 221 |
The boon companions | 227 |
Opening with a poetical eulogy of the Press and continuing with talk inspired by the same | 238 |
A metamorphosis more surprising than any in Ovid | 256 |
Showing that the age of magic and magicians is not yet over | 257 |
Two business men transact a little business | 65 |
In the cabin | 73 |
Only a page or so | 79 |
Story of the unfortunate man from which may be gathered whether or no he has been justly so entitled | 82 |
The man with the travelingcap evinces much humanity and in a way which would see to show him to be one of the most logical of optimists | 88 |
Worth the consideration of those to whom it may prove worth considering | 94 |
An old miser upon suitable representations is prevailed upon to venture an investment | 98 |
A sick man after some impatience is induced to become a patient | 105 |
Towards the end of which the HerbDoctor proves himself a forgiver of injuries | 116 |
Inquest into the true character of the HerbDoctor | 124 |
A soldier of fortune | 129 |
Reappearance of one who may be remembered | 140 |
A hard case | 146 |
In the polite spirit of the Tusculan disputations | 157 |
In which the powerful effect of natural scenery is envinced in the case of the Missourian who in view of the region roundabout Cairo has a return of ... | 180 |
A philanthropist undertakes to convert a misanthrope but does not get beyond confuting him | 184 |
Which may pass for whatever it may prove to be worth | 259 |
In which the Cosmopolitan tells the story of the gentlemanmadman | 261 |
In which the Cosmopolitan strikingly evinces the artlessness of his nature | 264 |
In which the Cosmopolitan is accosted by a mystic whereupon ensues pretty much such talk as might be expected | 265 |
The mystical master introduces the practical disciple | 277 |
The disciple unbends and consents to act a social part | 281 |
The hypothetical friends | 283 |
In which the story of China Aster is at secondhand told by one who while not disapproving the moral disclaims the spirit of the style | 291 |
Ending with a rupture of the hypothesis | 308 |
Upon the heel of the last scene the Cosmopolitan enters the barbers shop a benediction on his lips | 312 |
Very charming | 319 |
In which the last three words of the last chapter are made the text of the discourse which will be sure of receiving more or less attention from those re... | 329 |
The Cosmopolitan increases in seriousness | 332 |
The River | 351 |