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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... fiction based on his own experience and observations, and in the process he had, after six books, all but exhausted the phases of his seagoing experience; if he were to continue to build his writings on some sort of autobiographical ...
... fiction) were familiar with. Melville would “poetically establish the richly aristocratic condition” of Pierre's life and character (Pierre 12), secure in the knowledge that his own cousins, the Van Rensselaers, were in reality as ...
... fictional setting derives from his immediate surroundings that in dedicating Pierre to “Greylock's Most Excellent Majesty” Melville rightly acknowledged that he had received from that sovereign “most bounteous and unstinted ...
... fiction. Whatever the truth of Allan Melvill's past, friends of the family or younger members of the family might assume or suspect that the long-concealed secret sin of Pierre's father was based on fact, especially given Allan's many ...
... fiction. Just before its publication, the New York Herald (29 July 1852) reported that “In fiction, Herman Melville has a new book, 'Pierre, or the Ambiguities,' in which it is understood that he has dressed up and exhibited in ...
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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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