Gothic to multicultural : idioms of imagining in American literary fiction / by Lee, A. Robert, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Voices Off, On, and Beyond: Ventriloquy in The Confidence-Man; 8. Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage: The Novella as Moving Box.…”
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Bodies of reform : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / by Salazar, James B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the grandest thing in the world -- Philanthropic taste: race and character in Herman Melville's The confidence-man -- Character is capital: manufacturing habit in Mark Twain's character-factory -- Muscle memory: building the body politic of character in Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The National Police Gazette -- A story written on her face: Pauline Hopkins's unmaking of the inherited character of race -- Character's conduct: spaces of interethnic emulation in Jane Addams's charitable effort.…”

Bodies of reform : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / by Salazar, James B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the grandest thing in the world -- Philanthropic taste: race and character in Herman Melville's The confidence-man -- Character is capital: manufacturing habit in Mark Twain's character-factory -- Muscle memory: building the body politic of character in Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The National Police Gazette -- A story written on her face: Pauline Hopkins's unmaking of the inherited character of race -- Character's conduct: spaces of interethnic emulation in Jane Addams's charitable effort.…”
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The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo / by Tanner, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Bell -- Lustres and condiments: Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays -- 'A summer in the country': Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale romance -- 'Nothing but cakes and ale': Herman Melville's White-jacket -- 'All interweavingly working together': Herman Melville's Moby-Dick -- Melville's counterfeit detector: The confidence-man -- Henry James: 'The story in it' - and the story without it -- Henry James's 'saddest story': The other house -- Henry James and Shakespeare -- 'Feelings of middle life': William Dean Howells's Indian summer -- 'The story of the moon that never rose': F. …”

Almost chosen people : oblique biographies in the American grain / by Zuckerman, Michael, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Domingue -- The nursery tales of Horatio Alger -- Faith, hope, not much charity: The optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford -- DR. Spock: The confidence man -- Ronald Reagan, Charles Beard, and the Constitution: The uses of enchantment.…”
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The Cambridge companion to Thomas Mann /

Table of Contents: “…Anderson -- Classicism and its pitfalls: Death in Venice / Ritchie Robertson -- The political becomes personal: Disorder and early sorrow and Mario and the magician / Alan Bance -- Buddenbrooks: between realism and aestheticism / Judith Ryan -- The magic mountain / Michael Beddow -- Religion and culture: Joseph and his brothers / Wolf-Daniel Hartwich -- Doctor Faustus / Susan von Rohr Scaff -- Lotte in Weimar / Yahya Elsaghe -- The confessions of Felix Krull, confidence man / Frederick A. Lubich -- Mann as essayist / Hinrich Siefken -- Mann as diarist / T.J. …”

Cloak and dollar : a history of American secret intelligence / by Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri

Table of Contents: “…The American spy considered as a confidence man -- The Washington style -- Allan Pinkerton's legacy -- Did Wilkie crush the Montreal spy ring? …”
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After the whale : Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick / by Davis, Clark

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Moby-Dick and after -- Moby-Dick and the divided body -- Language and the ascetic body in Pierre and "Bartleby" -- Israel potter and the search for the hearth -- Part II: The limits of form -- Toward deception: the short fiction and the failing body -- Inverted worlds: "Benito Cereno" and The confidence-man -- Part III: Reshaping the lost debate -- The fissure in the hearth: Battle pieces -- Clarel and the search for divine body -- A question of distance: the late poetry -- Part IV: An open ending -- Billy Budd and the touch of a god.…”
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Frontier : American literature and the American West / by Fussell, Edwin S.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Leatherstocking tales of James Fenimore Cooper -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Sketches of Western adventure ; The scarlet letter ; Neutral territory -- Edgar Allan Poe -- South and West ; Narratives of exploration and discovery -- Henry David Thoreau -- Essential West ; Walden : the pioneer ; Walden : the frontier -- Herman Melville -- Early Western travels ; Moby-Dick ; Disputed frontier ; The confidence-man -- Indian summer of the literary West -- Thoreau's unwritten epic ; Hawthorne's last stand ; Melville as poet -- Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass.…”
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American hungers : the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 / by Jones, Gavin Roger, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The Problem of Poverty in Literary Criticism -- Beggaring Description: Herman Melville and Antebellum Poverty Discourse -- Paradigms of Poverty and Pauperism -- Literary Uses and Abuses of Poverty -- The Ambivalence of Thoreau and Davis -- Redburn and Israel Potter: Transatlantic Counterparts -- Melville's Sketches of the Mid-1850s -- Poor Pierre -- Problems of Need in The Confidence-Man -- Being Poor in the Progressive Era: Dreiser and Wharton on the Pauper Problem -- Writing Poverty -- The Persistence of Pauperism -- What's the Matter with Hurstwood? …”

The new Cambridge companion to Herman Melville /

Table of Contents: “…Melville and the nonhuman world / Geoffrey Sanborn -- Melville and oceanic studies / Hester Blum -- Democracy and Melville's aesthetics / Jennifer Greiman -- White-jacket : Telling who is - and aint - a slave / Jeannine Marie Delombard -- Reading Moby-Dick / Samuel Otter -- Pierre, life history, and the obscure / Wyn Kelley -- "Bartleby" and the magazine fiction / Graham Thompson -- Skepticism and The Confidence-Man / Maurice S. Lee -- Melville the poet in the postbellum world / Elizabeth Renker -- Judgment in Billy Budd / Gregg Crane -- Melville and queerness without character / Michael D. …”

The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville.

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Savage eye : Melville and the visual arts /

Table of Contents: “…: Melville's Israel Potter, Baron Gros, Zummo, and the Plague / Hennig Cohen -- Daumier's Robert Macaire and Melville's Confidence Man / Helen P. Trimpi -- Melville's art: Overtures from the journal of 1856-1857 / Basem L. …”

Melville and aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…Levine -- Theatricality, strangeness, and the aesthetics of plurality in The confidence-man / Jennifer Greiman -- Battle music: Melville and the forms of war / Peter Coviello -- Melville's song of songs: Clarel as aesthetic pilgrimage / Ilana Pardes.…”

Complete recorded works in chronological order. 18 October 1938 to 4 April 1940 /

Table of Contents: “…Black horse blues -- Sugar mama -- Me no lika you -- Possum den blues (take 1) -- Possum den blues (take 2) -- Little low mellow mama -- A working man's blues -- One to twelve (just as show) -- Let's talk things over -- Sinking sun blues -- Easy way blues -- Machine gun blues -- Beer tavern -- You can't stop me from drinking -- I want some sea food -- Rolling chair -- Love bug blues -- Confidence man -- Big apple blues -- Big money blues -- Chicago mill blues -- Five minutes blues -- Two time mama.…”
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The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- 4. …”
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The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- 4. …”
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The Language of Allegory : Defining the Genre / by Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-

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Melvillean Parasites. by Gullestad, Anders Marcussen

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From gift to commodity : capitalism and sacrifice in nineteenth-century American fiction / by Hoeller, Hildegard, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Panics, gifts, and faith in Susan Warner's Wide, Wide World -- From grateful slave to greedy banker: William Wells Brown's Clotel and the circulation of shinplaster fiction -- From Typee to The Confidence-Man: Herman Melville and the (im)possibility of the gift -- Fading gifts and rising profits. …”
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