The Confidence-Man
Book (italiano):
The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions.<br /><br />"Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on <em>The Confidence-Man</em>, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism" is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and social developments central to Melville's America and to this novel, including utopias, cults, cure-alls, Transcendentalism, Indian hating, the Bible, and popular literature.<br /><br />A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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