English 2308E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Unreliable Narrator, Transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau
18 Dec 2016
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May have just felt right at the time. Is it for himself, is it for bartleby. Not always a good idea to dive into why writers have written their pieces. Probably the most dangerous enterprise of the century. Whale oil was used for huge amount of things at the time, large demand. More people died in this than in the civil war. Because of this, melville became sensitive to labour and its practices. The newest star of the literary scene. How does he interact with the transcendentalist movement going on around him. He is adverse to conflict, unlike most lawyers. Different perspective, he was doing the physical work compared to, say, Wrote more complex and nonsensical texts as his career progressed. It"s not like he can opt out of capitalism. A long time to talk, but he still does not talk about himself. Takes a long time to explain things, his expressions just kind of wind on.
