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Shedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the author''s literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith that infused Herman Melville''s writings following Moby-Dick. Jonathan A. Cook''s study is the first to focus on the decisive role of faith and doubt in Melville''s writings following his mid-career turn to shorter fiction, and still later to poetry, as a result of the commercial failures of Moby-Dick and Pierre.

Nathaniel Hawthorne claimed that Melville can neither believe nor be comfortable in his unbelief, a remark that encapsulates an essential truth about Melville''s attitude to Christianity. Like many of his Victorian contemporaries, Melville spent his literary career poised between an intellectual rejection of Christian dogma and an emotional attachment to the consolations of non-dogm

Neither Believer nor Infidel

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 15 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9781501770968
      978-1501770968
      ISBN-10 1501770969
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the author''s literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith that infused Herman Melville''s writings following Moby-Dick. Jonathan A. Cook''s study is the first to focus on the decisive role of faith and doubt in Melville''s writings following his mid-career turn to shorter fiction, and still later to poetry, as a result of the commercial failures of Moby-Dick and Pierre.

      Nathaniel Hawthorne claimed that Melville can neither believe nor be comfortable in his unbelief, a remark that encapsulates an essential truth about Melville''s attitude to Christianity. Like many of his Victorian contemporaries, Melville spent his literary career poised between an intellectual rejection of Christian dogma and an emotional attachment to the consolations of non-dogm

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