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Neither believer nor infidel : skepticism and faith in Melville's shorter fiction and poetry / Jonathan A. Cook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1501770977
  • 1501770985
  • 9781501770982
  • 9781501770975
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Neither Believer nor InfidelDDC classification:
  • 813.3 23
LOC classification:
  • PS2387 .C665 2023
Online resources:
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.
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.
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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"- Provided by publisher.

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