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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the historical context and religious symbolism in Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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a sailor and adventurer. Melville told stories about his experiences in the South Pacific and on-board ship in his first novels -- Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), Omoo,
a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847), and Mardi (1849) were which romances about life in the "South Sea" islands. His next book, Redburn, His First Voyage (1849)
was loosely structured around Melvilles own first experiences with going to sea, and White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (1850) is novelization based on his life as a working
seaman in the U.S. Navy. When Melville ultimately settled on life on land, he moved to a farm in Massachusetts in 1850
and continued work on his epic Moby Dick (1851). He and the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne became close friends and Moby Dick is dedicated to Hawthorne (Sorel 73). But while
his friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, focused on lofty elements like human imperfection and guilt, Melville initial wrote about the untamable nature of the sea and the way in which nature and
human nature play off of each other. An article in The Wilson Quarterly (1994) makes note of the fact that in 1921 the literary critic Richard Weaver said about
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener is a story that was first published in the magazine Putnams
Monthly and was one of the few works that was also published in a collected book form before Melvilles death. Melville was an author who depicted a variety of
religious viewpoints in his stories, and it is evident that his religious theology changed over time. Prior to the onset of the American Civil War, Herman Melvilles views appeared
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