Reading Melville's Pierre; Or, The AmbiguitiesLSU Press, 2007 - Počet stran: 240 Herman Melville's Pierre; or. The Ambiguities has a storied place in the history of American publishing. Melville began writing this follow-up to Moby-Dick in October 1851, thinking that it might prove even more significant than its predecessor. The 1852 publication of Pierre was catastrophic, however. Melville lost his English publisher, and American reviewers derided the book and called the author mad. InReading Melville's "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," noted Melville authorities Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker probe the daunting story behind a deeply flawed but revealing work, one that directly reflects the major crisis of Melville's authorial life. |
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... (Correspondence 210). In this letter he also reported that he had had his “dressing-gown patched up,” his way of saying that he was ready for his winter's stint of writing. He was still waiting for Moby-Dick to appear, but, caught up in ...
... (Correspondence 174). There is no way of knowing how soon the story of Pierre Glendinning took its place among these “future works,” but any plans for it were probably inchoate until after he was finished with Moby-Dick at the end of the ...
... (Correspondence 613). Pressed for enough funds to complete the ongoing repairs at Arrowhead, and suddenly determined to pay for the plating of Moby-Dick himself—so that he could sell it to the highest bidder—on 1 May he borrowed an ...
... (Correspondence 195). Some three weeks later he was still at least occasionally tormented by “Blue Devils” but was now busy with the haying season and looking forward to being soon a “disengaged man” and to enjoying “some little bit of ...
... (Correspondence 185–86). Melville had himself influenced the public understanding of Hawthorne with his Mosses essay the year before, and both at the time he read The House of the Seven Gables and in the next months he had occasion to ...
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Books I and II | 32 |
Books IIIV | 57 |
Books VIXII | 81 |
The Kraken Ending | 112 |
JanuaryFebruary 1852 | 144 |
7 Aftermath | 175 |
8 Faltering Recognition | 186 |
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