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Philanthropic taste: race and character in Melville''s The Confidence Man. (Abstracts).

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-FEB-02
Format: Online - approximately 391 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Philanthropic taste: race and character in Melville''s The Confidence Man. (Abstracts).(Herman Melville)(Brief Article)

Article Excerpt
Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man certainly reads like a warning, and the chilling story of the genocidal Indian-hater, Colonel John Moredock, certainly seems its most hyperbolic moment. But while the Indian-hater story, on its surface, warns of the exterminating danger of his genocidal rage, the story also suggests that the even greater danger of the Indian-hater "par excellence"...

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