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作 者:HermanMelville 著 著
出 版 社:Oversea Publishing House
出版时间:2005-12-1
I S B N:9780393979275
| Preface Acknowledgements The Text of The Confidence-Man Contents 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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