The confidence-man
Subtitle: his masquerade
By: edited by Elizabeth S. Foster.
Contributors: Foster, Elizabeth Sophia, 1901- ed.
Publisher: Hendricks House
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Steamboats -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Savage irony and black humor as Melville's Confidence-Man strips away the hypocritical pretenses of fellow passengers on a Mississippi steamboat.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes. Bibliographical references included in "Explanatory notes" (p. 287-365)
"The introduction and explanatory notes [are based on the editor's] ... doctoral dissertation, 'Herman Melville's The confidence man: its origin and meaning,' Yale University, 1942."