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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... Duyckinck that he already had in full blast the “great dining-room fire-place, which swallows down cords of wood as a whale does boats” (Correspondence 210). In this letter he also reported that he had had his “dressing-gown patched up ...
... Duyckinck around the place with so much enthusiasm that the visitor reported that Melville knew “every stone & tree” of the place and would “probably make a book of its features” (Leyda 1.383). On 5 August 1850 Melville met Nathaniel ...
... Duyckinck (joint editors of the New York Literary World), leaving them exhilarated and exhausted. Through the late summer and early fall of 1851 Melville had ruminated over his future writing seriously enough that in September he did ...
... Duyckinck on 8 October). Melville's familiarity with the Balanced Rock led to the creation of the “Memnon Stone” in Pierre, and many other scenes in the first half of the book record the hero's perambulations about a landscape based on ...
... Duyckinck's young friend Oakey Hall—plausible if Melville wrote one day for each two days he spent looking over his sources and planning the next chapters.) Nonetheless, though Melville spoke contemptuously of Redburn, that seemingly ...
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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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