Preferential Consideration: Bartleby, Class, and Genocide in David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster”
This article presents the case for reading Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” as a key intertext for David Foster Wallace’s 2004 essay, “Consider the Lobster”. Focusing upon Wallace’s assertion that “it may well be that an ability to form preferences is the decisive criterion for real suffer...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-12-01
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| Series: | C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings |
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| Online Access: | https://c21.openlibhums.org/articles/17 |