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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... mind for a time. In the previous two years, while living in New York City and after moving to the Berkshires, Melville had entertained, at least fleetingly, a number of future literary projects. In the summer of 1849 he may have talked ...
... mind has the intense feeling of the visable truth ever entered more deeply” (Correspondence 185–86). Melville had himself influenced the public understanding of Hawthorne with his Mosses essay the year before, and both at the time he ...
... mind (New York Albion, 22 November 1851). (Almost all the known contemporary reviews of Melville's books are reprinted in Higgins and Parker, Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews.) The new book would be still more overtly a ...
... mind had wandered away across the ocean to the boulevards of Paris, and even decades later Melville managed to think of Thomas (however unrealistically) as a refugee from Versailles. In that house (after early 1851 occupied by his ...
... Hawthorne. Isabel, who opens to Pierre the “deeper mystery” of himself, was linked in Melville's mind with the man of mosses, the man he associated more than anyone else with his own creative unfoldings during the 9 TOWARD A KRAKEN BOOK.
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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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