Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's The Confidence-Man

by Jonathan A. Cook

This valuable new addition to Melville studies offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Melville's last published novel, one of the most complex texts in American literature and a work that has long been noted for the divergent critical views it has elicited. Reading the novel as a generic hybrid of narrative satire and apolyptic vision, Cook situates the novel in its implicit theological, historical, and biographical contexts: he examines the novel's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313294046
• ISBN13: 9780313294044
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"