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The Confidence-Man 2e

Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • The Text of The Confidence-Man
  • A Note on the Text
  • The River
  • Melville’s Sources for Chapters 14 and 44 and His Revisions
  • Elizabeth S. Foster • [The "Shock of Wit" in Melville’s Revisions of Chapter 14]
  • Harrison Hayford • [Melville’s "Smoky" Revisions of Chapter 14]
  • Tom Quirk • ["Sources for Chapters 14 and 44 in The Confidence-Man]
  • Contemporary Reviews
  • Anonymous • [A Sketchy Affair]
  • Anonymous • [A "Ubiquitous" Rouge]
  • Anonymous • [A Morality Enacted by Masqued Players]
  • Anonymous • [Philosophy Brought "Into the Living World"]
  • Anonymous • [Melville as "A Mediaeval Jester"]
  • Anonymous • [Hardly "A Genuine Sketch of American Society"]
  • Anonymous • [Ineffably Meaningless and Trashy]
  • Anonymous • [Hard Reading]
  • Anonymous • [The Hardest Nut to Crack]
  • Anonymous • [A Connected Series of Dialogues]
  • Anonymous • [Melville’s "Reckless Perversion of High Abilities"]
  • Anonymous • [A Mass of Writing Undigested and Indigestible]
  • Anonymous • [Melville as Excellent Master of the Ceremonies]
  • Anonymous • [No Prospect of Any Good]
  • Anonymous • [A Writer "Not in Love or Sympathy with His Kind"]
  • Anonymous • [A Strange Book]
  • Anonymous • [A "Picture of American Society"]
  • Anonymous • [Melville as Keen and Bitter Observer]
  • Anonymous • [A Dull and Dismally Monotonous Book]
  • Biographical Overviews
  • Hershel Parker • The Confidence-Man’s Masquerade
  • Johannes Dietrich Bergmann • From The Original Confidence Man
  • Dennis Marnon • Old Major Melville and "This World’s Goods"
  • Stephen D. Hoy • Melville’s Bubbles
  • Hershel Parker • From Damned by Dollars
  • Hershel Parker • "The Root of All Was a Friendly Loan"
  • Hershel Parker • A Note on Melville’s Fascination with Criminals, Punishment, and Execution
  • Jonathan A. Cook • Melville, the Classics, and The Confidence-Man
  • Herman Melville (as Recorded by Evert A. Duyckinck) • [Melville’s After-Table Talk, October 1, 1856]
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne • [With Melville on Terms of Sociability and Confidence]
  • Hershel Parker • Melville as a Student of Aesthetics
  • Backgrounds, Sources, and Criticism
  • UTOPIAS, SECTS, CULTS, AND CURE-ALLS
  • Hershel Parker • Delusions of a "Terrestrial Paradise"
  • Herman Melville • [Who Is Happier: Polynesian Savage or Self-Complacent European?]
  • Herman Melville • [Must Christianizing the Heathen Destroy the Heathen?]
  • Herman Melville • From The Discourse of Alma
  • Dr. John Wakefield Francis • [The Bostonian Heresy Invades Manhattan]
  • Abraham Tucker • From Benevolence
  • Herman Melville • From Chronometicals and Horologicals
  • Orville Dewey • [The Minister’s Burden: Being Expected to Sympathize with the Afflicted]
  • Herman Melville • [Why Sensitive People Should Not Let Themselves Feel Pity]
  • Orville Dewey • [Poverty Not a Common Lot]
  • Orville Dewey • [What Distresses the Poor: Artificial Wants]
  • Herman Melville • [Why the Poor in the United States Suffer More Than the Poor Elsewhere]
  • Orville Dewey • [Joseph Curtis vs. Horace Greeley]
  • Orville Dewey • [Robert Minturn’s Scheme to Thwart Dishonest Beggars]
  • Scott Norsworthy • The New York Tribune on Begging and Charity
  • Herman Melville • [New-Fangled Notions of the Social State]
  • Patricia Cline Cohen • A Confident Tide of Reformers
  • Susan M. Ryan • From Misgivings: Melville, Race, and the Ambiguities of Benevolence
  • THE LASTEST HERESY: MELVILLE AND TRANSCENDENTALISM
  • Carl Van Vechten • [The Great Satire of Transcentalism]
  • Brian Higgins • Mark Winsome and Egbert: "In the Friendly Spirit"
  • MELVILLE AND THE DEVIL IN THE BIBLE AND POPULAR LITERATURE
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne • [A Satanic Beggar: The Devil in Popular Stories]
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne • The Celestial Railroad
  • Herman Melville • [The Devil Is a Curious Chap]
  • Thomas L. McHaney • The Confidence-Man and Satan’s Disguises in Paradise Lost
  • INDIAN HATING IN THE CONFIDENCE-MAN
  • Historical Background
    • The Historical Fact of Indian Hating
    • Joel Barlow • [Columbus’ Questions]
    • James Hall • Indian Hating—Some Sources of This Animosity—Brief Account of Col. Moredock
    • Herman Melville • All Races: Made in "the Image of God"
    • Herman Melville • [Civilized Atrocities in the South Pacific]
    • Henry Whitney Bellows • [Extermination as a Solution]
    • Anonymous • Columbia Trial Reveals Life ("Everyone Kills Indians") on the Plains
    • Margaret Coel • Indian Hating Today
  • Political Background
    • The Politics of Allegorizing Indian Hating
    • Elizabeth S. Foster • [Melville’s Allegorical Indian as a Type of Confidence-Man]
    • John W. Shroeder • Sources and Symbols for Melville’s Confidence-Man
    • Hershel Parker • The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating
  • Selected Bibliography

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