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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... novel, one which omitted all the late-added sections on Pierre as author. This Kraken edition of Pierre (HarperCollins, 1995) was, of course, designed as a nonce text, intended only to complement, certainly not to replace, the standard ...
... novel, even though we argued that Melville's belated decision to turn Pierre into an author had introduced major inconsistencies into the work. Here, in chapters 2–5 we read the same Pierre that students of Melville are all familiar ...
... novels his neighbor Sarah Morewood sent him (Harriet Martineau's The Hour and the Man and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni), novels which might have distracted him from what he belittled as “silly thoughts and wayward speculations ...
... novel were all familiar to him in his youth. For all the rich associations of his hero's background, however, Melville's main purpose in the book would be to explore the ways an explosive tragic revelation may impel an exceptional human ...
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Books I and II | 32 |
Books IIIV | 57 |
Books VIXII | 81 |
The Kraken Ending | 112 |
JanuaryFebruary 1852 | 144 |
7 Aftermath | 175 |
8 Faltering Recognition | 186 |
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