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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... claims,” asking Melville's father-in-law, Judge Lemuel Shaw, to depute travelers to seek out her unknown kindred and establish her right to some inheritance. Priscilla was a woman deeply sensitized to what it was to be, in her own words ...
... claiming that “It is unnecessary to speak of Zanoni, as it is well known to every reader of romance.”) Pierre, as Leon Howard notes, may reflect Melville's ironic reaction to Bulwer's belief in the superiority of the “Ideal” to the ...
... claim that the book's “catastrophe” was “hastily, weakly, and obscurely managed”—a judgment based on Bentley's ... claims. As part of the abuse he came in for in reviews of Moby-Dick, Melville in the fall of 1851 was made to suffer ...
... claiming that the great American writer would not come in the costume of Queen Elizabeth's day (or, presumably, depict his characters in such clothing—whether of fabric or rhetoric). In Moby-Dick he had proved to his own satisfaction ...
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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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