Melville Among the Magazines

Lectures
Written By Matthew Joseph

Graham Thompson

 

Read:
Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, “Bartleby, Part II” and “The Paradise of Bachelors”  (Optional: “Two Temples”)

Suggested Additional Readings: Thomas Augst “Melville, at Sea in the City” in The Cambridge Companion to New York Literature (NY: Oxford, 2010); Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Putnam’s Monthly, Nov. and Dec. 1853), “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tarturus of Maids” (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, April 1855), “The Two Temples” (unpublished).

 
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