Melville’s Majestic Missive

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dc.bibliographicCitation.article4
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume71
dc.contributor.authorUrie, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-24T13:43:04Z
dc.date.available2025-02-24T13:43:04Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn keeping with the spirit of American Studies, this article engages in an interdisciplinary examination of Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (1853). Employing a broad literary-critical-historical methodology that also incorporates cultural and social theory, I sociohistorically contextualize “Bartleby” and demonstrate how this stylistically innovative short story anticipated later works of modernist, existential, and postmodern literature. Now internationally renowned as a classic of American literature, “Bartleby” is of interest not only for its historically innovative style—which continues to resonate with contemporary readers—but also for how it potentially serves as Melville’s self-reflexive meditation on his then declining literary career.
dc.identifier.doi10.18422/71-04
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3325
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publishedInGöttingen
dc.publisherGöttingen University Press
dc.relation.issn2750-7327
dc.relation.journalNew American Studies Journal
dc.relation.journalaltA Forum
dc.rightsL::CC BY-SA 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:810
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudies
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudies
dc.titleMelville’s Majestic Missive
dc.title.alternative“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”
dc.typearticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
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