"What do the divils find to laugh about" in Melville's <em>The Confidence-Man</em>
The failure of identity in The Confidence-Man has confounded readers since its publication. To some critics, Melville's titular character has seemed to leave his readers in a hopelessness without access to confidence, identity, trust, ethical relationality, and, finally, without anything to say...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2018
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6978 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7978&context=etd |