Melville and Balzac: the man in cream-colors.(Essays)(novelists Herman Melville and Honore de Balzac)(Essay)

College Literature | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

In their detailed commentary as part of the Northwestern Newberry edition of The Confidence-Man, the editors proposed the accepted theory that Herman Melville began writing his novel after reading a newspaper article about the re-appearance in New York of an "original confidence man," known as William Thompson. Yet beyond this assertion they confess uncertainty on several points still to be resolved. Two of these are the nature of the story's initial setting and its philosophical development. 

 
  Nor do we know two further basic matters: how or when it occurred to 
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