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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... White-Jacket. Once the paired Polynesian Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847) were behind him and he had worked his way far into his third book, Mardi, Melville had thought—and repeatedly talked to his publishers—in terms of the fresh fields a ...
... White-Jacket. In Moby-Dick he made his second bid for literary preëminence, displaying the bold originality he advocated for American authors in his Mosses essay. In Moby-Dick he combined adventurous whaling narrative with profound ...
... White-Jacket, required only a “score of sittings,” according to Evert and George Duyckinck's young friend Oakey Hall—plausible if Melville wrote one day for each two days he spent looking over his sources and planning the next chapters ...
... White-Jacket (chaps. 4 and 6) and may have been remembering when he referred in Pierre to the “foulest of all human lingoes,” the “Cant language, or the Flash” (240). (Bulwer's Pelham receives instruction in the Flash before visiting a ...
... White-Jacket). Melville may have kept that revelation for their private dinner, an occasion suffused for the men with the intensity of their mutual respect, the presumed magnitude of Melville's achievement, the magnificence of 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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