'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’

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'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’

Although a good deal of recent critical attention to Melville's writing has followed the lead of Robert K. Martin in addressing the issue of sexuality, the predominant themes in discussions of “Bartleby” remain changes in the nature of the workplace in antebellum America and transformations in...

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Main Author:	Thompson, Graham
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2000
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29621/

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