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. …”
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Muscular Christianity : embodying the Victorian Age /

Table of Contents: “…Allen -- Muscular spirituality in George MacDonald's Curdie books / John Pennington -- "Degenerate effeminacy" and the making of a masculine spirituality in the sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Susan L. Roberson -- The confidence man: empire and the deconstruction of muscular Christianity in The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Daniel Faulkner -- The re-subjection of "Lucas Malet": Charles Kingsley's daughter and the response to muscular Christianity / Patricia Srebrnik -- Pater's muscular aestheticism / James Eli Adams.…”
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Is the Devil a Myth? by Wimberly, C. F.

Table of Contents: “…Title; Contents; Preface; I -- The Problem of Evil; II -- The Origin of Evil; III -- Lucifer; IV -- Devil-Satan-Serpent-Dragon; V -- Diabolus-Demonia-Abaddon-Apollyon; VI -- The Devil a Blockade -- VII -- The Great Magician; VIII -- The Roaring Lion; IX -- An Angel of Light; X -- The Sower of Tares; XI -- The Arch Slanderer; XII -- The Double Accuser; XIII -- Satan a Spy; XIV -- The Quack Doctor; XV -- The Devil a Theologian; XVI -- The Devil a Theologian (Continued); XVII -- The Devil's Righteousness; XVIII -- The World's Tempter; XIX -- The Confidence Man; XX -- The Trapper; XXI -- The Incomparable Archer.…”
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New territories, new perspectives : the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase /

Table of Contents: “…Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. …”
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Frontier in American Literature / by Fussell, Edwin S.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; Chapter 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Sketches of Western Adventure; The Scarlet Letter; Neutral Territory; Chapter 3: Edgar Allan Poe; South and West; Narratives of Exploration and Discovery; Chapter 4: Henry David Thoreau; The Essential West; Walden: The Pioneer; Walden: The Frontier; Chapter 5: Herman Melville; Early Western Travels; Moby-Dick; The Disputed Frontier; The Confidence-Man; Chapter 6: Indian Summer of the Literary West; Thoreau's Unwritten Epic; Hawthorne's Last Stand; Melville as Poet; Chapter 7: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; IndexOriginally published in 1970. …”
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Cross-examinations of law and literature : Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville / by Thomas, Brook

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The art of crime : the plays and films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet /

Table of Contents: “…Nadel -- Gradations of criminality in the plays of David Mamet / Kimball King -- Melville's The confidence man and his descendants in David Mamet's work / Barry Goldensohn -- Fantasy crimes/fictional lives : Lakeboat / Anne M. …”
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The rise and fall of Paramount Records : a great migration story, 1917-1932 / by Blackwood, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Mayo Williams: Impresario, Confidence Man, Champion of the Race -- 9. How to Make a Race Record -- 10. …”
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Negative cosmopolitanism : cultures and politics of world citizenship after globalization /

Table of Contents: “…American good life, the Bandung spirit, and a human rights record / Crystal Parikh -- Sui generous : examining the object of organized philanthropy through the MacArthur Foundation / Geordie Miller -- Underwriting cosmopolitanism : insurance, slavery, and confidence games in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" and The confidence-man / Dennis Mischke -- Fractured mediations : Eur/Asian vernacular cosmopolitanisms / Sneja Gunew -- Disaster cosmopolitanism : imaginations of comparison in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt shadows / Liam O'Loughlin -- Cosmopolitanism from below : oil capitalism, informality, and citizenship in Nigeria / Paul Ugor -- Representing migrant labour in contemporary Britain : Hsaio- ung Pai's Chinese whispers and Marina Lewycka's Strawberry fields/Two caravans / Pamela McCallum -- Cosmopolitan Creoles and neoliberal mobility in Annalee Davis's On the map / Melissa Stephens -- Reproductive politics, the negative present, and cosmopolitan futurity / Heather Latimer -- Standing outside the law : prostitution-free zones and the power of property / Juliane Collard -- "Internal racisms" of the Yakuza-eiga / Mike Dillon -- Embedded cosmopolitanism : Tolstoyan and Goethean ideas of world Literature during the two world wars / Dina Gusejnova -- At home in the world of the wound : feral cosmopolitics in the Red Riding Quartet / Mark Simpson -- Homiletic realism / Timothy Brennan.…”
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American exceptionalisms : from Winthrop to Winfrey /

Table of Contents: “…Allegro -- "The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind" : American universalism and exceptionalism in the Early Republic / Emily García -- Burlesquing America's errand : savage satire in Irving's History of New York and Melville's The confidence-man / Matthew Brophy -- Exclusion acts : how popular Westerns brokered the Atlantic diaspora / Christine Bold -- America as "world-salvation" : Josiah Strong, W.E.B. …”
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Counterfeiting labor's voice : William A. A. Carsey and the shaping of American reform politics / by Lause, Mark A.

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Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men : nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories /

Table of Contents: “…Lewis -- The gamblers outwitted / Emerson Bennett -- From The confidence-man: his masquerade / Herman Melville -- From Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown -- From Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb / Henry Bibb -- From The white slave, or, Memoirs of a fugitive / Richard Hildreth -- From Hatchie, the guardian slave, or, The heiress of Bellevue / Warren T. …”
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Art and its uses in Thomas Mann's Felix Krull / by Schonfield, Ernest

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Imaginary Dialogues in American Literature and Philosophy : Beyond the Mainstream. by Kinzel, Till

Table of Contents: “…Joe Lockard, Antislavery Dialogues in the United StatesAntonio Lastra, From Walden to Waldwasen: Dialogues between Hermits and Poets (Thoreau, Heidegger, Celan); David Janssens, Melville's Song and Dance: Diabolical Dialogue in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade; Hans Ulrich Seeber, Stereotypes, Utopian Vision and the Creation of the Illusion of Life. …”
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David Foster Wallace in context /

Table of Contents: “…David Foster Wallace and narratology / Pia Masiero -- A meeting of minds : David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov and the ethics of empathy / Marshall Boswell -- Writing in a material world : David Foster Wallace and 1980s fiction / Ralph Clare -- Confidence man : Wallace and the American nineteenth century / Catherine Toal -- David Foster Wallace and European literature / Lucas Thompson -- David Foster Wallace and poetry / Philip Coleman -- 'Non'-fiction / Martin Eve -- Thanks everybody and I hope you like it : David Foster Wallace and entertainment / Matthew Luter -- Visual culture / Corrie Baldauf -- Wallace and attention / Alice Bennett -- After analysis : notes on the new sincerity from Wallace to Knausgaard / Jon Baskin -- Perfectionism and the ethics of failure / Áine Mahon -- The pragmatist possibility in David Foster Wallace's writings / Antonio Aguilar Vazquez -- A tale of two theses : system J and The broom of the system / Maureen Eckert -- Free will and determinism / Paul Jenner -- Mathematics of the infinite / Stuart J. …”
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Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine / by Milder, Robert

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Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs : late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers : together with "Taking the census" and other Alabama sketches / by Hooper, Johnson Jones, 1815-1862

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The grammar of good intentions : race and the antebellum culture of benevolence / by Ryan, Susan M., Ph. D.

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Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men : nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories /

Table of Contents: “…Lewis -- The gamblers outwitted / Emerson Bennett -- From The confidence-man: his masquerade / Herman Melville -- From Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown -- From Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb / Henry Bibb -- From The white slave, or, Memoirs of a fugitive / Richard Hildreth -- From Hatchie, the guardian slave, or, The heiress of Bellevue / Warren T. …”
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The Adman's Dilemma : From Barnum to Trump. / by Rutherford, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Enter "Don Draper," 2007; Organization; Prelude; The Con Man, the Adman, and the Trickster: Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, 1857; 1. The Huckster's Game; 1. …”
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