THE CONFIDENCE-MAN:HIS MASQUERADE HERMAN MELVILLE

The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition （1857）， slightly corrected. The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations， particularly of biblical allusions."Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man， eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by， especially， Presbyterian， Congregationalist， and Methodist reviewers.A new section， "Bi