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Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York.(Book review)
From: Leviathan
Date: 20080301
Author:McGowan, Tony
Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xii + 232 pp.
In Tolerable Entertainment, John Evelev runs the calculated, complicated risk of reading Herman Melville as a "window" opening onto the emergent and transformative world of middle-class professional ideology in antebellum New York. This is a risk because Evelev and his readers are challenged to keep Melville, professionalism, and New York all in sight at once. But Evelev expertly helps us meet this challenge, and the result of ...
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