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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... story of a crucial period of Melville's creative life, from the fall of 1851 to the spring of 1853; proper understanding of Pierre, we argue, demands that this biographical evidence be taken into account. In chapter 1, we focus on ...
... account of Allan's ill-considered business ventures.) There was ample time too for him to have become aware that, having recklessly incurred his debts to Brewster and Stewart in purchasing and improving Arrowhead, he was himself ...
... account? So that selfishness is not having a regard for oneself, but having no regard for any thing else” (149). In Pierre, Melville would extemporize a lecture on Tucker's sophistry. Early in the novel, Melville introduces Falsgrave ...
... Pierre's fervent self-dedication to Isabel. In Frankenstein too we find examples of the ominous foreshadowing and bombastic rhetoric Melville would employ in Pierre. Thematically, Melville's account of a self-sacrificing idealist ...
... account of Hawthorne's “having understood the book,” and he looked ahead to the still greater books he would write: “Lord, when shall we be done growing? As long as we have anything more to do, we have done nothing. So, now, let 24 ...
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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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