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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille

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The complete online text of A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille.


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Biography of James De Mille
1006 words, approx. 3.4 pages
Working at night and very fast, James De Mille wrote over twenty popular novels--"potboilers"--between 1861 and 1877. By day, he was the respected and respectable professor of rhetoric and history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, who taught his classes...
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Biography of James De Mille
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James De Mille was one of the most successful and prolific nineteenth-century Canadian writers of popular fiction during his relatively short writing career. He is best remembered for A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), an apparently...


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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Information
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder is the most popular book by James De Mille. It was serialized posthumously and anonymously[1] in Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City in 1888. It was...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Hebrew manuscripts found
03/20/2003: 314 words, approx. 1 pages
00-00-0000 Hebrew manuscripts found -- Book covers hid medieval fragments By CIARAN GILES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 03-20-2003, Thursday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions.=.Final. Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B MADRID, Spain - Spanish archivists say they have discovered...
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Evening Standard - London
I found a Winterson manuscript on Tube
03/09/2007: 437 words, approx. 2 pages
AN UNPUBLISHED novel by Jeanette Winterson was accidentally left at a south London tube station. The Stone Gods, by the awardwinning writer of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, is not due to be published until September - but was found abandoned on...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Maggie Kilgour
8,557 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Kilgour asserts that De Mille utilized the figure of the cannibal in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder as an instrument for commenting on mid-nineteenth-century imperialism and materialism.
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Critical Essay by Gwendolyn Guth
8,207 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following excerpt, Guth considers De Mille's use of framing in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder to satirize the process of exegesis.
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Critical Essay by Stephen Milnes
7,322 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Milnes presents A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder as a parable of the colonial experience, highlighting what he considers the political necessity of Lord Featherstone's yawn that ends the novel and prevents any further disclosure of colonialist strategies and practices.
 


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