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One of the narrator’s first impressions of Bartleby is that the scrivener is a “voracious” copyist, and indeed Bartleby initially seems to be a model employee. His chain of refusals, however, springs from one specific request—though he continues (for awhile) to copy, Bartleby refuses to check his copy against the original. This moment gestures toward the multitude of subtly differentiated types of copying in Melville’s text. What does it mean to be a copyist, and what does the act of copying signify in Bartleby the Scrivener? What is the difference between a copy and an original, and does the text take for granted that originals exist? Is there a difference between a copy and a type? Copying text is certainly a central preoccupation for Melville, but there are other areas you might explore as well. For example, Bartleby is introduced as part of a “singular set of men…law-copyists or scriveners”—does this indicate that Bartleby is a copy of a certain type of man? Is the “home” he sets up for himself in the Wall Street office a copy of domestic space, or something more indeterminate? What can we make of the other kinds of copied text in this story, for example the paper bills and newspapers that regularly appear? When the lawyer and other clerks start using Bartleby’s speech patterns, have they begin to copy him?
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