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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... publisher, and reviewers of the American edition (1852) accused the book and the author of being mad. In the remainder of the nineteenth century, Pierre was dismissed as Melville's “late miserable abortion” and characterized as ...
... Pierre had been a juvenile author and his further decision to portray Pierre as an author still young but forced too early into would-be maturity. More thoroughly than we did in 1978, we next analyze these added passages on Pierre as an ...
... writer could use contemporary America as the setting for a Gothic-flavored romance. Melville's response to ... author—of any country: “into no recorded mind has the intense feeling of the visable truth ever entered more deeply ...
... authors in his Mosses essay. In Moby-Dick he combined adventurous whaling narrative with profound psychological and metaphysical exploration, encyclopedic cetological lore with elements of Gothic romance and Shakespearean tragedy. In ...
... Pierre's father was based on fact, especially given Allan's many French connections. Melville's granddaughter Eleanor Melville Metcalf long afterwards summed up the painful situation: Melville was “writing of some matters known to be ...
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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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