Isolation and Caritas: Polar Themes in Melville's The Confidence-Man (open access)

Isolation and Caritas: Polar Themes in Melville's The Confidence-Man

The thesis examines isolation and caritas, or charity, in The Confidence-Man as polar themes which express, respectively, withdrawal from and suspicion of the human community and integration within and appreciation for that community. Isolation is considered a negative theme; caritas, an affirmative theme.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Hollen, Norman V.
System: The UNT Digital Library