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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... career yet seemed to its author, in the early stages of its composition, as likely to be greater even than Moby-Dick. In “The Flawed Grandeur of Melville's Pierre” (1978), we argued that Melville's belated decision, in January 1852, to ...
... career. In chapters 2–5, we analyze what we can plausibly reconstruct of this original version (the version represented in the Kraken edition). In our 1978 essay we gave a sequential reading of the published 1852 version of the novel ...
... career as well as the nature of his next work. He had built a career upon fictionalized autobiography or fiction based on his own experience and observations, and in the process he had, after six books, all but exhausted the phases of ...
... career had taken in the last two years, in its own terms and in relation to his own career. Melville's assessment of his own reputation as “horrible” (“a 'man who lived among the cannibals'!”) grows out of his pessimism about the ...
... career, Melville looked forward to a further season of study before embarking on another ambitious book. By late May 1849, in the wake of hostile reviews and low sales of Mardi, he was casting about for a way to salvage his career with ...
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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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