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Article: The two handles of 'Israel Potter.' (Herman Melville's 'Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile')
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- February 1, 1994
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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, first published serially in Putnam's between July 1854 and March 1855, holds a place among those works that mark Herman Melville's temporary return to critical favor after the debacle of Pierre. As such, it is likely to reveal at least one species of alteration in Melville's dealings with his audience. To parse these dealings we must examine both Melville's professed strategy for packaging Israel Potter and his management, within the novel, of its primary source, The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, an "autobiography" written by its printer, Henry Trumbull.(1) Central to both problems is Melville's treatment of the ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Melville, Herman
The Oxford Companion to United States History;
700+ words
... ... reception by readers and critics, Melville claimed he was “ ... to the short story genre, Melville produced such masterpieces ... 1856). The historical novel Israel Potter (1855) is set in the Revolutionary ... Franklin among the characters. Melville's last novel, The Confidence ...
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