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Satirical Apocalypse
Jonathan A. Cook
其他書名
An Anatomy of Melville's The Confidence-Man
出版Bloomsbury Academic, 1996-04-30
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / HumorReligion / Eschatology
ISBN03132940469780313294044
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kAFbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This valuable new addition to Melville studies offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Melville's last published novel, one of the most complex texts in American literature and a work that has long been noted for the divergent critical views it has elicited. Reading the novel as a generic hybrid of narrative satire and apolyptic vision, Cook situates the novel in its implicit theological, historical, and biographical contexts: he examines the novel's relation to Melville's heterodox ideas of the deity, to the increasingly commercialized cultural milieu of antebellum America, and to Melville's own life and literary career. Uncovering a wealth of new data on the novel's satirical applications, including its covert use of Melville's friends and family for character models, Cook offers a compelling reading of The Confidence-Man - one that is sure to influence our future conception of its creator.