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Bartleby

refusal-without-program actor who tests how institutions respond when a person stops participating but does not supply… · Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” published 1853

Bartleby is represented within Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” published 1853 and mid-19th-century Wall Street office and legal-copying culture. Canon classification: fictional literary character in a short story narrated by his employer.

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