Satirical Apocalypse - An Anatomy of Melville's The Confidence-Man

List of contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Satirical Form: Parodic Masquerade
Historical Context: Mirror of Man
Allegorical Matrix: Mirror of God
Biographical Models: Fathers and Sons
Biographical Models: Literary Brethren
Interior Fables: Misanthropes and Philanthropists
Interpolated Essays: Apologia and Ars Poetica
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the author

JONATHAN A. COOK has a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has been a lecturer at Boston University and has published articles on Irving, Hawthorne, and Melville.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Cook, Cook Jonathan A.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1996
• EAN: 9780313294044
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29404-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, The Arts: World Literature