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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... 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 summer of 1851. Melville's situation at Arrowhead soon provoked other moods ...
... Glendinning, had become delirious as he was dying and, like Mr. Glendinning, died when his son was twelve. As his mind wanders in his death throes, Mr. Glendinning repeatedly utters in Pierre's hearing the words, “My daughter! my ...
... Glendinning a long-belated way of acknowledging imperfections in his own father. During the years in New York City, late 1847 through most of 1850, the attention of Allan Melvill's widow, Maria Gansevoort Melville, had been diffused on ...
... Glendinning. This man, named in the spirit of Bunyan and Hawthorne, manifests un-Christ-like deference to the opinions of the rich and a corresponding un-Christ-like lack of concern for the poor. Later, as the action shifts from rural ...
... Glendinning, Halbert and Edward, appear in Scott's The Monastery (1820); the younger brother, Edward, is the title character of its sequel, The Abbot (1820). Almost inevitably Melville had encountered novels by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ...
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Books IIIV | 57 |
Books VIXII | 81 |
The Kraken Ending | 112 |
JanuaryFebruary 1852 | 144 |
7 Aftermath | 175 |
8 Faltering Recognition | 186 |
Works Cited | 213 |
Index | 219 |
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