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title	:	Melville's Muse : Literary Creation & the Forms of Philosophical Fiction
author	:	Wenke, John Paul.
publisher	:	Kent State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0873385276
print isbn13	:	9780873385275
ebook isbn13	:	9780585262345
language	:	English
subject	Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Aesthetics, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) , Philosophy in literature, Fiction, Literary form.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	PS2388.A35W46 1995eb
ddc	:	813/.3
subject	:	Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Aesthetics, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) , Philosophy in literature, Fiction, Literary form.

Page iii Melville's Muse Literary Creation & the Forms of Philosophical Fiction John Wenke

Page iv 1995 by The Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 44242 All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 95-3560 ISBN 0-87338-527-6 Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 5 4 3 2 1 Wenke, John Paul. Melville's muse : literary creation and the forms of philosophical fiction / John Wenke. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87338-527-6 1. Melville, Herman, 18191891Aesthetics. 2. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 3. Philosophy in literature. 4. FictionPhilosophy. 5. Literary form. I. Title. PS2388.A35W46 1995 95-3560 813'.3dc 20 CIP British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data are available.

Page v To Sheila and our children, Jacqueline Lillian, Joseph Hughes, and Benjamin Hughes

Page vii My lord, all men are inspired; fools are inspired; your highness is inspired; for the essence of all ideas is infused. Of ourselves, and in ourselves, we originate nothing. When Lombardo set about his work, he knew not what it would become. He did not build himself in with plans; he wrote right on; and so doing, got deeper and deeper into himself; and like a resolute traveler, plunging through baffling woods, at last was rewarded for his toils. "In good time," saith he, in his autobiography, "I, came out into a serene, sunny, ravishing region; full of sweet scents, singing birds, wild plaints, roguish laughs, prophetic voices. Here we are at last, then," he cried; "I have created the creative." Mardi What may man know? (Here pondered Clarel;) let him rule Pull down, build up, creed, system, school, And reason's endless battle wage, Make and remake his verbiage But solve the world! Scarce that he'll do: Too wild it is, too wonderful. Clarel

Page ix CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Part One Mardi: "The Peculiar Theatre of the Romantic and Wonderful" 1 1. Making Mardi's Patchwork 3 2. Narrative Self-Fashioning and the Play of Possibility 27 3. Perpetual Cycling 47 Part Two "The Absolute Condition of Present Things" 69 4. Redburn and White-Jacket. "Concocting Information into Wisdom" 71 5. Moby-Dick and the Impress of Melville's Learning 92 6. Moby-Dick and the Forms of Philosophical Fiction 112 Part Three Pierre and The Confidence-Man: "This Guild of Self-Impostors" 165

Page x 7. Excursive Ponderings in Pierre 167 8. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: "The Most Extraordinary Metaphysical Scamps" 193 Epilogue 217 Notes 219 Works Cited 233 Index 243

Page xi PREFACE In the turbid wake of years, Herman Melville came to feel an unjustified contempt for his auspicious and controversial debut in the genre of the travel narrative. He would always seem resentful that

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