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Knave, Fool, and Genius

Author : Susan Kuhlmann
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469650568
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Knave, Fool, and Genius written by Susan Kuhlmann and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The confidence man held a fascination for Melville, Hawthorne, Howells, Johnson J. Hooper, Bret Harte, and Mark Twain. In this study the writers are grouped in such a way as to emphasize certain large-scale cultural patterns of nineteenth-century America. Primary attention is given to the con man character himself and the ways in which he reflects the unique qualities and perceptions of a given writer. Originally published in 1973. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Confidence Men and Painted Women

Author : Karen Halttunen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300037883
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Confidence Men and Painted Women written by Karen Halttunen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America. "An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting. ... This book adds immeasurably to the current work on sentimental culture and American cultural history and brings to its task an inquisitive, fresh, and intelligent perspective. ... Essential reading for historians, literary critics, feminists, and cultural commentators who wish to study mid-nineteenth-century American culture and its relation to contemporary values."--Dianne F. Sadoff, American Quarterly "A compelling and beautifully developed study. ... Halttunen provides us with a subtle book that gently unfolds from her mastery of the subject and intelligent prose."--Paula S. Fass, Journal of Social History "Halttunen has done her homework--the research has been tremendous, the notes and bibliography are impressive, and the text is peppered with hundreds of quotes--and gives some real insight into an area of American culture and history where we might have never bothered to look."--John Hopkins, Times Literary Supplement "The kind of imaginative history that opens up new questions, that challenges conventional historical understanding, and demonstrates how provocative and exciting cultural history can be."--William R. Leach, The New England Quarterly "A stunning contribution to American cultural history."--Alan Trachtenberg

Knave, Fool, and Genius: the Confidence Man as He Appears in Nineteenth-century American Fiction

Author : Susan Lohafer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Knave, Fool, and Genius: the Confidence Man as He Appears in Nineteenth-century American Fiction written by Susan Lohafer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Confidence-man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-man written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans

The Confidence-man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810103252
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-man written by Herman Melville and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. -- Amazon.com.

The Confidence Game in American Literature

Author : Warwick Wadlington
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871646
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence Game in American Literature written by Warwick Wadlington and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Nathanael West as creators of a fictive experience centered in deceptive or problematic transactions of confidence. The model of a confidence game, suggested by the writers' own thematic preoccupations, permits an analysis of the social motivations inherent in the fiction. The author concentrates on the process by which confidence is established and the ways in which deception leads to regeneration and an altered perception of authority. His approach increases our understanding of the interrelation between the writer, his reader, and the world each envisions. Warwick Wadlington examines individual texts, as well as the pattern of each writer's total work. His book distinctively combines an enlarging archetypal frame with rhetorical analysis of the writer-reader imaginative act. Treated as different forms of a coherent mode of fictive experience, the works of these important authors illuminate each other. Professor Wadlington's method results in decisively new readings of each text and contributes to a phenomenology of reading three writers whose works represent crucial "moments" in the artist-audience negotiation of mutual faith. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Confidence-Man (大千行：變裝大戲)

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1265 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man (大千行：變裝大戲) written by Herman Melville and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 1265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465517952
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade written by Herman Melville and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool's Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American society.

Worlds Apart

Author : Jean-Christophe Agnew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521379106
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Jean-Christophe Agnew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents, Professor Agnew illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters in the formations of Anglo-American market culture. Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theatre and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550 to 1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theatre. As marketing practice broke free of its traditional boundaries and restraints, it challenged longstanding popular assumptions about the constituents of value, the nature of identity, the signs of authenticity, and the limits of liability. New exchange relations bred new legal and commercial fictions to authorise them, but they also bred new doubts about the precise grounds upon which the self and its 'interests' were to be represented. Those same doubts, Professor Agnew shows, animated the theatre as well. As actors and playwrights shifted from ecclesiastical and civic drama to professional entertainments, they too devised authenticating fictions, fictions that effectively replicated the bewildering representational confusions of the new 'placeless market'.

Bitter Carnival

Author : Michael André Bernstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820634
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Bitter Carnival written by Michael André Bernstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. . . . They are running in the streets--and they are coming right at you!" When a real murderer accuses the society he has brutalized, we are shocked, but we are thrilled by the same accusations when they are mouthed by a fictional rebel, outlaw, or monster. In Bitter Carnival, Michael Andr Bernstein explores this contradiction and defines a new figure: the Abject Hero. Standing at the junction of contestation and conformity, the Abject Hero occupies the logically impossible space created by the intersection of the satanic and the servile. Bernstein shows that we heroicize the Abject Hero because he represents a convention that has become a staple of our common mythology, as seductive in mass culture as it is in high art. Moving from an examination of classical Latin satire; through radically new analyses of Diderot, Dostoevsky, and Cline; and culminating in the courtroom testimony of Charles Manson, Bitter Carnival offers a revisionist rereading of the entire tradition of the "Saturnalian dialogue" between masters and slaves, monarchs and fools, philosophers and madmen, citizens and malcontents. It contests the supposedly regenerative power of the carnivalesque and challenges the pieties of utopian radicalism fashionable in contemporary academic thinking. The clarity of its argument and literary style compel us to confront a powerful dilemma that engages some of the most central issues in literary studies, ethics, cultural history, and critical theory today.

The Myth of the Picaro

Author : Alexander Blackburn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469619873
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Picaro written by Alexander Blackburn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of Spain, France, England, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Blackburn uses for the first time the resources of myth criticism to demonstrate how the picaresque masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age founded a narrative structure that was continued by Defoe, Smollett, Melville, Twain, and Mann. Originally published in 1979. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

First Resorts

Author : Jon Sterngass
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801865862
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book First Resorts written by Jon Sterngass and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-11-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the century progressed, however, Saratoga remained much the same, while Newport turned to private (and lavish) "cottages" and Coney Island shifted its focus to amusements for the masses.".

The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141974389
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an essay by Daniel G. Hoffmann. 'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool' In The Confidence-Man, Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamboat. Billy Budd, Sailor, published after Melville's death in 1891, is a gripping allegory of good and evil, as an innocent man, pressed into service on a British man-of-war, is falsely accused of mutiny. Both these late works are animated with the dark genius of the greatest of American writers. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

The Works of Herman Melville

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Herman Melville: The confidence-man : his masquerade

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville: The confidence-man : his masquerade written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Human Tradition in the Old South

Author : James C. Klotter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461601649
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Human Tradition in the Old South written by James C. Klotter and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades the rise of the sunbelt-politically, economically, and culturally-has made the significance of the region's history all the more apparent. In The Human Tradition in the Old South, Professor James C. Klotter has gathered twelve insightful essays that explore the region's past and ponder its place in the broader story of the nation. This highly readable volume presents the South's rich and varied history through the lives of a wide range of individuals-men and women, African Americans, whites, and Native Americans from many different Southern states. Written by well-established scholars these mini-biographies collectively range in time from the late colonial/early national period to the present. Filled with lively stories of fascinating Southerners and the times in which they lived, The Human Tradition in the Old South is ideal for courses on Southern history, social history, race relations, and the American history survey course.

The Human Tradition in Antebellum America

Author : Michael A. Morrison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842028356
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Human Tradition in Antebellum America written by Michael A. Morrison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who lived during the Antebellum period in American history. Part of The Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raising new questions from fresh perspectives, this volume contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamic forces that shaped the political, economic, social, and institutional changes that characterized the antebellum period. Moving beyond the older, outdated historical narratives of political institutions and the great men who shaped them, these biographies offer revealing insights on gender roles and relations, working-class experiences, race, and local economic change and its effect on society and politics. The voices of these ordinary individuals-African Americans, women, ethnic groups, and workers-have until recently often been silent in history texts. At the same time, these biographies also reveal the major themes that were part of the history of the early republic and antebellum era, including the politics of the Jacksonian era, the democratization of politics and society, party formation, market revolution, territorial expansion, the removal of Indians from their territory, religious freedom, and slavery. Accessible and fascinating, these biographies present a vivid picture of the richly varied character of American life in the first half of the nine-teenth century. This book is ideal for courses on the Early National period, U.S. history survey, and American social and cultural history.