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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Potter, William, 1955- Melville's Clarel and the intersympathy of creeds. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)607386452 |
Named Person: | Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Potter |
ISBN: | 087338797X 9780873387972 |
OCLC Number: | 54082275 |
Description: | xxii, 240 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Clarel in the nineteenth century -- 1. Clarel and nineteenth-century comparative religion -- 2. Melville as comparative religionist -- 3. Nineteenth-century comparative religion and the evolutionary model -- 4. Manifest destiny and the "American religion" -- 5. Protestantism, science, and democracy in Clarel -- 6. Beginnings : the Protestant problem -- pt. 2. Comparative religious patterns in Clarel -- 7. "Jerusalem" -- 8. "The wilderness" and "Mar Saba" -- 9. "Bethlehem" -- pt. 3. world's religions in Clarel -- 10. Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism -- 11. Judaism and Christianity. |
Responsibility: | William Potter. |
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Abstract:
In Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds, Potter examines the poem within this historical context and by so doing attempts to solve some of the issues that critics have asserted the poem presents. Potter attempts to account for the huge abundance of non-Christian material that appears in the poem.
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"If ever this dreadful incubus of a book [Clarel] (I call it so because it has undermined all our happiness) gets off Herman's shoulders I do hope he may be in better mental health - but at present I have reason to feel the gravest concern & anxiety about it - to put it in mild phrase." - Letter from????? to Catherine Gansevoort, 1876; Read more...
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