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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... chapter 1, we focus on Melville's composition of the first version of Pierre in late 1851, setting the book in the context of his life and literary career. In chapters 2–5, we analyze what we can plausibly reconstruct of this original ...
... chapter 8. Unless otherwise stated, in our references to and quotations from Melville's works we cite the NorthwesternNewberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. This page intentionally left blank Reading Melville's Pierre; or ...
... chapters, Melville also recognizably appropriated an actual “chair portrait” of his father, then hanging at Arrowhead, and made it the subject of disturbing sexual speculations (83–84). Melville may never have heard of one perturbing ...
... chapters.) Nonetheless, though Melville spoke contemptuously of Redburn, that seemingly innocuous book had opened the ... chapter 1 in referring to Ishmael's unconscious). It was not until the fall of 1851, however, as Melville, awaiting ...
... chapter 24, “Spiritual Interests, Real and Supreme”: What is it that distresses the poor man, and makes poverty in the ordinary condition of it, the burden that it is? It is not, in this country,—it is not usually, hunger, nor cold, nor ...
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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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