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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Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker. Nature of Religion, especially the third part, “On the Nature of Religion,” in chapter ... Saddle Meadows” to join company with “the wretched rush-lights of poverty and woe” (110–11). The novel scrutinizes ...
... Saddle Meadows to the city, Melville replaces Falsgrave with a more intellectual embodiment of nominal Christianity, Plotinus Plinlimmon, whose imperfectly preserved lecture “Chronometricals and Horologicals” becomes the centerpiece of ...
... Saddle Meadows section, perhaps even fashioning a symmetrical four or five days (like the country section) to encompass the whole of the city action. However rapid his progress on the new book, it was by now an unhappy, daunting time ...
... Saddle Meadows (26); Pierre will never regain his lost sense of an undisturbed moral beauty in the world (65); his crawling under the Memnon Stone will later hold immense significance for him (135); in aftertimes with Isabel, Pierre ...
... Saddle Meadows section.) Equal care in plotting is revealed in the ways the book (especially through the Saddle Meadow sections and some early city scenes) is tied together by cross-references, such as those to Nature's bounty toward ...
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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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