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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... Reading Melville's Pierre; or, The ambiguities / Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3226-5 (alk. paper) 1. Melville, Herman, 1819–1891. Pierre. I. Parker, Hershel ...
... reading the Pierre that Melville first completed. In the course of the book we tell the story of a crucial period of Melville's creative life, from the fall of 1851 to the spring of 1853; proper understanding of Pierre, we argue ...
... . Think of it!” [193]), and eager to establish his own literary reputation upon a basis more like Hawthorne's. The lesson of Hawthorne's recently published The House of 4 READING MELVILLE'S PIERRE; OR, THE AMBIGUITIES.
... reader. (See, for example, Correspondence 205–6, 253–55, 297, and Pierre 24–25, 33.) Demonstrably, Mrs. Morewood's inveterate socializing is related to the composition of Pierre. On 26 September Melville was one of a party that drove to ...
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