...This chapter focuses on Herman Melville's Israel Potter, a historical narrative first serialized in Putnam's magazine from July 1854 to March 1855, at which time it was also published in book form. In Israel Potter, Melville adapts the teachings...

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...The present is social: this is the central claim of Chapter 5, the book’s final chapter, which reads Herman Melville’s novel Israel Potter (1855). Formally peculiar, the novel’s erratic telling of history thus mirrors Israel’s wanderings. Both are, as the narrator says at one point...