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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... present world , when the freakishness of its form , like that of the ugly duckling , appears to have been in the eye ... presents many kinds of men who INTRODUCTION XV THE SETTING.
His Masquerade Herman Melville Howard Bruce Franklin. of this world and presents many kinds of men who had their being in these events . But , though the scene is the central Mississippi , the symbolic center of America , the story ...
... present syntactical snares are annotated . Many , many of the words of The Confidence - Man , including its title , are significant puns ; only a few of these are annotated . And nothing in the book , from the most physical of objects ...
... presents " what purported to be a careful description " of " a mysterious impostor " ; the stranger may read this description , but the reader may not . All he can read is the author's descrip- tion of the stranger , who is a " lamb ...
... present age , the Age of Time , by destroying man . This may be both Guinea's " ge'mman as is a sodjer " and what is hinted in the final sen- tence : " Something further may follow of this Masquerade . " And it may also explain why the ...
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A mute goes aboard a boat on the Mississippi | 3 |
Showing that many men have many minds | 10 |
In which a variety of characters appear | 15 |
Renewal of old acquaintance | 27 |
The man with the weed makes it an even question whether he be a great sage or a great simpleton | 36 |
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 |