Contents
- The Confidence-Man
- Textual Appendix
- A Note on the Text
- The River
- Anonymous Arrest of the Confidence Man
- Evert A. Duyckink [The New Species of the Jeremy Diddler]
- Anonymous The Original Confidence Man in Town. —A Short Chapter on Misplaced Confidence
- T. B. Thorpe The Big Bear of Arkansas
- Nathaniel Hawthorne [A Satanic Beggar]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne [A Juvenile Salesman]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Celestial Railroad
- Charles Dickens [The City of Eden]
- Egbert S. Oliver Melville's Goneril and Fanny Kemble
- James Hall Indian hating.—Some of the sources of this animosity.—Brief Account of Col. Moredock
- Melville and the Transcendentalists: A Chronology
- March 12, 1847, Emerson to Duyckinck
- May 28, 1847, Thoreau to Duyckinck
- July 3, 1847, Thoreau to Duyckinck
- July 27, 1847, Thoreau to Duyckinck
- March 12, 1847, Emerson to Duyckinck
- July 31, 1847, Melville and Duyckinck
- October 31, 1848, Lowell on Emerson
- February 24, 1849, Melville on Emerson
- March 3, 1849, Melville on Emerson
- September 22, 1849, Duyckinck on Thoreau
- Spring or Summer, 1850, Melville reads Week?
- July or August, 1850, Melville reads Mosses from an Old Manse
- July or August, 1850, Melville reads "The Celestial Railroad"
- September 3-6, 1850, Melville and the Hawthornes
- September 5 or 6, 1850, Melville reads "Friendship"?
- March, 1851, Melville and Hawthorne
- December 2, 1852, Melville and the Hawthornes
- October, 1854, Melville reads about Walden
- March 22, 1862, or after, Melville annotates Emerson
- Benjamin Franklin [Confidence]
- P. T. Barnum [The Mystified Barber]
- Albany Evening Journal
- Philadelphia north American and United States Gazette
- New York Dispatch
- Boston Evening Transcript
- London Leader
- London Literary Gazette, and Journal of ArchΚology, Science, and Art
- New York Day Book
- Burlington Free Press
- London Illustrated Times
- Berkshire County Eagle
- Cincinnati Enquirer
- Carl Van Vechten [The Great Transcendental Satire]
- Jay Leyda [Melville’s Allegorizing]
- Samuel Willis Private Allegory and Public Allegory in Melville
- Leon Howard The Quest for Confidence
- John W. Shroeder Sources and Symbols for Melville’s Confidence-Man
- Watson G. Branch The Mute as "Metaphysical Scamp"
- Warner Berthoff [Ponderous Stuttering in Chapter 5]
- R. W. B. Lewis [Goneril and the Man with Gold
- Sleeve-Buttons: The Prose in Chapters 12 and 7]
- Elizabeth S. Foster [Melville’s Revision of Chapter 14]
- Hershel Parker The Metaphysics of Indian-hating
- Merton M. Sealts, Jr. [The Dialogue in Chapter 30]
- Allen Hayman ["Reality" in Chapter 33]
- Elizabeth S. Foster [Emerson in The Confidence-Man]
- Brian Higgins Mark Winsome and Egbert: "In the Friendly Spirit"
- Harrison Hayford Poe in The Confidence-Man
- Hershel Parker "The Story of China Aster": A Tentative Explanation
- Howard C. Horsford Evidence of Melville’s Plans for a Sequel to The Confidence-Man
- Sleeve-Buttons: The Prose in Chapters 12 and 7]
- Elizabeth S. Foster [Melville’s Revision of Chapter 14]
- Hershel Parker The Metaphysics of Indian-hating
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