Melvillean Parasites / / Anders M. Gullestad.

• VerfasserIn: Gullestad, Anders M.,
• Place / Publishing House: [Oslo] : : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing),, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)

Melvillean Parasites addresses an aspect of Herman Melville's authorship largely overlooked by previous scholars: the abundance of narrators and characters in his writings in search of food-an aim they typically pursue through sponging off the people they encounter. Deploying the conceptual fig...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements. 7
• Abbreviations 9
• Chapter 1 Introduction 11
• On Food in Melville 18
• A First Peep at the Melvillean Parasite: Omoo . 27
• Chapter 2 On the Genealogy of the Parasite.33
• Religious Origins and the Greco-Roman Comedic Parasite.35
• The Elizabethan Literary Parasite 45
• Charles Dickens and the Pathologization of the Parasite.59
• Chapter 3 A Parasite among the Cannibals in Typee 77
• Tommo in the Paradise of the Parasite. 79
• The Parasite and His Host. 94
• Tommo the Troublemaker112
• Chapter 4 A Parasitic Chain on Wall Street in "Bartleby" . 125
• Bartleby, the Anorexic Parasite .126
• A Sweet Morsel for the Narrator.141
• The Replicating Formula .150
• Chapter 5 Spotting the Parasite(s) in "Jimmy Rose".161
• The Two Careers of Jimmy Rose.162
• William Ford's Surprising Inheritance .168
• Tasty Compliments for a Vain Heart173
• Chapter 6 The Parasitic Cascade in The Confidence-Man 175
• On Begging, the Charity of the Crowd, and Sturdy Teeth.177
• Enter the Cosmopolitan 195
• The "Noise" of The Confidence-Man 216
• Chapter 7 Conclusion .235
• Works Cited . 241.