{"product_id":"the-confidence-man-a-norton-critical-edition","title":"The Confidence-Man: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected. The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions.\n\n\"Contemporary Reviews\" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers.\n\nA new section, \"Biographical Overviews,\" embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melville’s life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville’s life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others.\n\n\"Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism\" is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and social developments central to Melville’s America and to this novel, including utopias, cults, cure-alls, Transcendentalism, Indian hating, the Bible, and popular literature.\n\nA Selected Bibliography is also included.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 039397927X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.039397927X.LN\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Like New\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Parker, Hershel|Melville, Herman|Niemeyer, Mark\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: In unread excellent condition. Pages are crisp and clean with no markings. Item may have minor shelf wear on the cover, spine, pages, or dust cover. Item may contain remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41646667497530,"sku":"DBV.039397927X.LN","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/039397927X-0.jpg?v=1789273995","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-confidence-man-a-norton-critical-edition","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}