Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to Knight |
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Page 31
... confidence games or confidence men not generally believed to be disreputable . While the actions of a single confidence man may have pro- vided the initial inspiration for his novel , there were other types of confidence men or confidence ...
... confidence games or confidence men not generally believed to be disreputable . While the actions of a single confidence man may have pro- vided the initial inspiration for his novel , there were other types of confidence men or confidence ...
Page 32
... confidence men and their prototypes operating in America prior to the publication of The Confidence - Man and offers a multitude of possible sources of material for Melville's novel in addition to the original confidence man . Bergmann ...
... confidence men and their prototypes operating in America prior to the publication of The Confidence - Man and offers a multitude of possible sources of material for Melville's novel in addition to the original confidence man . Bergmann ...
Page 57
... confidence men , the duke , pretend to be deaf and dumb . Though a deaf - mute confidence man may not have been as generally familiar to readers as a fraudulent beggar or an herb doctor , he would nevertheless be an identifiable type of ...
... confidence men , the duke , pretend to be deaf and dumb . Though a deaf - mute confidence man may not have been as generally familiar to readers as a fraudulent beggar or an herb doctor , he would nevertheless be an identifiable type of ...
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