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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... Moby-Dick not only in time but also in the ambitiousness of its aims and in the power of at least some of its passages. Melville scholars and critics have yet to recognize, however, the events in Melville's life that brought about the ...
... Moby-Dick. In this book, we ourselves attempt to comprehend Melville's original design for Pierre and his original achievements. We attempt, that is, to describe the experience of reading the Pierre that Melville first completed. In the ...
... Moby-Dick to appear, but, caught up in his chores and his new plans, he had all but put the whaling book out of his mind for a time. In the previous two years, while living in New York City and after moving to the Berkshires, Melville ...
... Moby-Dick at the end of the summer of 1851. Melville's situation at Arrowhead soon provoked other moods than the ebullience evident in his letter to Duyckinck. Early in 1851 he was under extreme financial pressure, awaiting month by ...
... Moby-Dick himself—so that he could sell it to the highest bidder—on 1 May he borrowed an enormous sum, $2,050, from an old friend from Lansingburgh, T. D. Stewart, without telling anyone, as far as we know, except perhaps his lawyer ...
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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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