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Inspiration
Herman Melville wrote the story as an emotional response to the fact that Moby-Dick was not selling as well as he had expected.[1]
The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist".[2]
- Introduction
- Inspiration
- Plot summary
- Analysis of Bartleby
- Analysis of the Narrator
- Philosophy in Bartleby
- Religious Influences
- Bartleby and the Absurd
- Influence
- Adaptations
- Notes
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