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Melville and repose : the rhetoric of humor in the American Renaissance
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Melville and repose : the rhetoric of humor in the American Renaissance

Author: John Bryant
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Humor
Named Person: Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Bryant
ISBN: 0195077822 9780195077827
OCLC Number: 27187068
Description: xviii, 312 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources --
A Great Intellect in Repose --
Humor and Being --
Melville's Aesthetics of Repose --
Melville's Rhetoric: Voicing the Voiceless --
Melville and the Reader: "Lord when shall we be done changing?," --
America's Comic Debate --
America's Repose --
Britain's Amiable Tradition --
Amiability on Native Ground --
The Example of Irving --
Irving's Comic Debate --
Salmagundi and Some Versions of the Bachelor --
A Rip in the Canvas: Irving's Picturesque --
Irving's Goldsmith and the Rhetoric of Geniality --
Playing Along: America and the Rhetoric of Deceit --
The Deep Thought of Laughter --
A Veracious History of Lying --
The Lie of our Land: Forms of Comic Lying --
E.A. Poe and T.B. Thorpe: Two Models of Deceit --
Poe's Humor --
Thorpe's Big Bear --
The Genial Misanthrope: Melville and The Cosmopolitan Ideal --
Melville's Cosmopolite --
Europe's Cosmopolite: "At Home in Every Place," --
America's Con Man Cosmopolite: "Nowhere a Stranger," --
Herman Melville: "Diogenes Masquerading as a Cosmopolitan," --
Rhetoric And Repose --
Typee --
The Anxieties of Humor --
Reliability and the Amiable Rebel --
Tommo's Picturesque --
Tommo's Amiable Eden --
Typee in Manuscript --
Drama and Restraint --
Finding Voice: Transcription, Transformation, and Translation --
Forging Ideology: Melville and "Little Henry," --
Tommo's Rhetoric of Deceit --
Tattoo, Taboo, and Cannibalism: Forms of Conversion --
Tommo Prometheus --
Baffled Scientist and Con Man Revivalist --
Rover and Cosmopolite --
Moby Dick.
Responsibility: John Bryant.
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