About this work of fiction
Melville's Israel Potter: Reflections On The American Dream (the Lebaron Russell Briggs Prize Honors Essays In English, 1969) by Alexander Keyssar is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
Alexander Keyssar's study focuses on Melville's treatment of the social and existential condition of the American common man--his inability to realize the happiness promised by the American dream and the impurity of democracy in a society with marked economic classes. The author discusses the literary coherence--thematic rather than narrative--of Melville's work as illustrated by Israel Potter and as representative of the novelist's writing during the 1853-1856 period. He includes a brief analys
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Alexander Keyssar
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674564756
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History