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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... heart.” (A copy of Jane Eyre had been in the Melville house since early 1848, a gift from Melville's young brother-in-law Lemuel Shaw Jr. to his sister Augusta.) On 29 April of the same year, the Literary World had described the Harper ...
... heart to use it (222); and his ties to his cousin Glen Stanly will involve in the end the most serious consequences (224). On reflective scrutiny, a few of these predictions seem somewhat misleading, as when the reader may gather (5) ...
... bewildering beauty” that created a “graceful glow on his limbs, and soft, imaginative flames in his heart.” Once again the narrator inserts a warning: Pierre was gliding “toward 34 READING MELVILLE'S PIERRE; OR, THE AMBIGUITIES.
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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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