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Neither Believer nor Infidel : Skepticism and Faith in Melville's Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Title
Neither Believer nor Infidel : Skepticism and Faith in Melville's Shorter Fiction and Poetry / Jonathan A. Cook.
ISBN
9781501770982
9781501770975
9781501770968
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (282 pages).
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Summary
"The first full-length study to explore the relationship between religious doubt and faith in a broad selection of Herman Melville's short stories, novellas, and poetry"- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2023
Contents
Neither believer nor infidel: biographical considerations
Biblical inversion and the ends of Christianity: "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Conversion, infatuation, resurrection: Christian salvation in "Cock-a-Doodle-Do!"
The genealogy of Melville's female Job: Griselda, "Wakefield," Agatha, Hunilla
Revolutionary skepticism in Israel Potter: the role of Ecclesiastes
Memorializing the dead in Battle-Pieces: Christian and classical motifs
"Are ye gods?" Interrogating the divine in Timoleon, etc.
Legends of the fall: Genesis, Paradise Lost, Schopenhauer, Billy Budd.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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