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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... Lemuel Shaw, to depute travelers to seek out her unknown kindred and establish her right to some inheritance. Priscilla was a woman deeply sensitized to what it was to be, in her own words, “cast upon the world,” exiled from “the ...
... Lemuel Shaw, the co-trustee of the old major's estate, that the younger of the two “had not been brought up different,” especially since he thought her an interesting young person. Something about the episode—Thomas's insistence that no ...
... Lemuel Shaw. He had known something of Dewey from his months in the Berkshires in his youth and young manhood, and Dewey was still preaching at the Church of the Messiah in New York City during Melville's early literary career there. In ...
... Lemuel Shaw Jr. to his sister Augusta.) On 29 April of the same year, the Literary World had described the Harper Wuthering Heights as “'a dark tale darkly told'; a book that seizes upon us with an iron grasp, and makes us read its ...
... Lemuel Shaw and his family in Boston. Having read “nearly one half” of the book, the Post reviewer agreed with the Athenæum that it was an “ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact” and derided it as a “crazy sort of affair ...
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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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