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... fiction . and implied that he hoped his confidence man approached , even if he did not achieve the originality of those char- acters in Shakespeare , Cervantes , and Milton about whom he speculated . Melville does not give such authors ...
... fiction . and implied that he hoped his confidence man approached , even if he did not achieve the originality of those char- acters in Shakespeare , Cervantes , and Milton about whom he speculated . Melville does not give such authors ...
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... Fiction , pp . 294–95 . 10. Ibid . , p . 291. Hoffman observes that Melville alluded to Math- er's work in " The Lightning - Rod Man " ( Putnam's , August 1854 ; Hoffman mistakenly writes that the story appeared in Harper's ) and " The ...
... Fiction , pp . 294–95 . 10. Ibid . , p . 291. Hoffman observes that Melville alluded to Math- er's work in " The Lightning - Rod Man " ( Putnam's , August 1854 ; Hoffman mistakenly writes that the story appeared in Harper's ) and " The ...
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... Fiction in The Confidence - Man : His Masquerade . " Nineteenth - Century Fiction 21 ( 1966 ) : 73–84 . Keysor , Elizabeth . " ' Quite an Original ' : The Cosmopolitan in The Confidence - Man . " Texas Studies in Language and Lit ...
... Fiction in The Confidence - Man : His Masquerade . " Nineteenth - Century Fiction 21 ( 1966 ) : 73–84 . Keysor , Elizabeth . " ' Quite an Original ' : The Cosmopolitan in The Confidence - Man . " Texas Studies in Language and Lit ...
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