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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... scenes for the boyhood of the exile (something he ultimately did, even though the real Potter was a Rhode Islander) but a different book set in the Berkshires. While vacationing at his late uncle Thomas Melvill's old farm near ...
... scenes in the first half of the book record the hero's perambulations about a landscape based on the stretch of the Berkshires from Mount Greylock to Lenox. So much of the fictional setting derives from his immediate surroundings that ...
... scene on the docks of Manhattan from 1839, when his now dead older brother Gansevoort saw him off for his first voyage, to Liverpool. For some time, at least since the writing of Omoo in 1846, Melville had been aware of the ...
... scene superimposing itself over another. He was himself acutely vulnerable to such experiences. At the end of May 1849, perhaps more disturbed by his memories than he realized, but expecting little growth of any sort, intellectual ...
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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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