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Melville and Repose
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MELVILLE
AND REPOSE
The Rhetoric of Humor
in the American Renaissance
John Bryant
New York Oxford
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1993
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Bryant, John, 1949-
Melville and repose :
the rhetoric of humor in the American Renaissance /
John Bryant.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-507782-2
1. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891—Humor.
2. American literature—19th century—History and criticism.
3. Humorous stories, American—History and criticism.
4. Rhetoric—United States—History—19th century.
5. Comic, The, in literature. 6. Narration (Rhetoric)
I. Title. PS2388.S2B79 1993 813'.3—dc20 92-46150
Selections from Chapter 1 were published under the title "Melville's Comic Debate" in
American Literature
55:2, copyright 1983 Duke University Press, and are reprinted with permission of the publisher. Other portions
of that chapter first appeared in "Melville's Picturesque," in
Savage Eye,
ed. Christopher Sten (Kent, Ohio,
1991), and are reprinted with permission of The Kent State University Press. Part of Chapter 6 was previously
printed in " 'Nowhere a Stranger': Melville and Cosmopolitanism,"
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
39:3
(December 1984), pp. 275-291, copyright 1984 by the Regents of the University of California. Selections
from this chapter were also published under the title ' 'Citizens of a World to Come: Melville and the Millennial
Cosmopolite," in
American Literature
59:1, copyright 1987 Duke University Press; they are reprinted here
with permission of the publisher. The discussion of "Melville's L-Word" in Chapter 8 was first recorded in
The New England Quarterly
(March 1990), and Chapter 13 originally appeared as "Allegory and Breakdown
in
The Confidence-Man," Philological Quarterly
65:1 (Winter 1986). Both are reprinted with permission of
the publishers. Selections from the
Typee
manuscript in Chapters 7, 8, and 9 are quoted from the Gansevoort-
Lansing Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and
Tilden Foundations.
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