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The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville
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Description for The Confidence-Man
Paperback. The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected. Editor(s): Parker, Hershel; Niemeyer, Mark. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 502.
The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. Contemporary Reviews includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers. A new section, Biographical Overviews, embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melville's life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville's life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others. ... Read more
The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. Contemporary Reviews includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers. A new section, Biographical Overviews, embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melville's life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville's life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
520
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393979275
SKU
V9780393979275
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About Herman Melville
Hershel Parker is a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, and of the Norton Critical Edition of Melville's The Confidence-Man and Moby Dick. He is co-editor of the multi-volume The Writings of Herman Melville (Northwestern-Newberry). Mark Niemeyer is Associate Professor of English at the Sorbonne. He is Associate Editor of the multi-volume Pleiade edition of Herman Melville, Oeuvres, ... Read more
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