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Cook, Jonathan A. 1953-

Neither believer nor infidel : skepticism and faith in Melville's shorter fiction and poetry / Jonathan A. Cook. - 1 online resource (282 pages)

Includes index.

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.

"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"-

ISBN: 1501770977 1501770985 9781501770982 9781501770975

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Faith in literature.
Skepticism in literature.
Foi dans la litt�erature.
Scepticisme dans la litt�erature.
Faith in literature.
Skepticism in literature.

Subjects--Index Terms: Melville and religion, religious skepticism in Melville, Melville and the bible, Melville biography, Melville literary criticism, Bartleby the Scrivener, Billy Budd, Melville and Christianity.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PS2387 / .C665 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 813.3