骗子的化装表演(诺顿美国文学评论系列) Confidence-Man
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作者： Herman Melville著
出 版 社： 华文出版社
出版时间： 2006-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 504印刷时间： 2005/11/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780393979275包装： 平装内容简介
The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected. The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions.
"Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers.
A new section, "Biographical Overviews," embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melville’s life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville’s life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others.
"Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism" is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and social developments central to Melville’s America and to this novel, including utopias, cults, cure-alls, Transcendentalism, Indian hating, the Bible, and popular literature.
A Selected Bibliography is also included
目录
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 theAfflicted]
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
