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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... Isabel, drawing on his uncle's stories and on what he had learned of one of Thomas's children, his French-born cousin Priscilla. In the spring of 1848, on a visit to Thomas's son Robert and his family at the Melvill farm (Thomas had ...
... Isabel, Melville's memories of different phases of the distant past and the more recent past collided and merged. iii Allan Melvill, like Pierre's father, Mr. Glendinning, had become delirious as he was dying and, like Mr. Glendinning ...
... Isabel's dark tale of her dark childhood [122].) But the book also draws on Melville's acquaintance with a much wider range of British fiction. Just before its publication, the New York Herald (29 July 1852) reported that “In fiction ...
... Isabel's stories (see Pierre 64, 114–18, 122–24, 157–59), Frankenstein's reference to Elizabeth Lavenza as “my more than sister,” mine “to protect, love, and cherish” (chap. 1) also anticipates Pierre's fervent self-dedication to Isabel ...
... Isabel's letter and his subsequent capacity for profound insight transform him into a latter-day Hamlet. Of the innumerable verbal echoes of Shakespeare in the book, perhaps the most significant derive from Prospero's farewell to his ...
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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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