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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... published in 1852. Knowledge of the compositional history and the multiple, contradictory impulses that produced this version is essential to comprehending the book that had such a devastating effect on Melville's career yet seemed to ...
... published 1852 version of the 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 ...
Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker. In places we draw on material previously published in Higgins and Parker 1978, 1983, 1986, and 1995, and in Parker 1976, 1977, 1996, and 2002. Ways in which our thinking about Pierre has evolved over the ...
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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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