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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... York City a few days later. Maria Gansevoort Melville and her daughters Helen and Fanny remained to run the household and to take care of Lizzie and the Melvilles' almost-twoyear-old son, Malcolm, with Helen's primary duty being to ...
... York City house (financed by his father-in-law in 1847) so he could make the remainder of the down payment to Dr. Brewster and carry out muchneeded repairs and new construction on the farmhouse and outbuildings, not 2 READING MELVILLE'S ...
... York City house sold for less than he had hoped, he asked for an advance on the whaling book from Harper & Brothers, his American publishers. At the end of April they gave two reasons for refusing: an “extensive and expensive addition ...
... York.” Worse, his Whale was still unfinished and “only half through the press.” But his earlier mood had abated and he wrote of it now with at least fleeting self-mockery: for weeks the “most persuasive season” of late spring and early ...
... York Albion, 22 November 1851). (Almost all the known contemporary reviews of Melville's books are reprinted in Higgins and Parker, Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews.) The new book would be still more overtly a psychological ...
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Books I and II | 32 |
Books IIIV | 57 |
Books VIXII | 81 |
The Kraken Ending | 112 |
JanuaryFebruary 1852 | 144 |
7 Aftermath | 175 |
8 Faltering Recognition | 186 |
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