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"A spirit of humanity: Bartleby and the modern prison system.".

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-JUL-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
When Melville's narrator in "Bartleby, the Scrivener," concludes his tale with "Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!" he is addressing not all of humankind who might sympathize with Bartleby, but rather the popular appeal to "humanity" that was the motto of prison reformers through the first half of the nineteenth century....

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