Class Relationship and Resistance in Melville's Stories: "The Encantadas" and "Bartleby"

Abstract

Herman Melville's' Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Encantadas register a residual fascination with the expression and apprehension of suffering that emerged in the nineteenth century's entangled notions of bourgeois sensibility in the picture of antebellum America. 'Bartleby ' capitalizes on this phenomena, as the copyist propels the plot by refusing the narrator's aspirations to both noble sentiment and liberal agency through resolutely refusing to display evidence of suffering. The Encantadas, have with sketches, an allegorical dimension referring mostly to a condition of existence in mid-nineteenth century American Capitalism.