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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... secret sin of Pierre's father was based on fact, especially given Allan's many French connections. Melville's granddaughter Eleanor Melville Metcalf long afterwards summed up the painful situation: Melville was “writing of some matters ...
... secret but also illustrated the speciousness of the Christianity commonly practiced by its worldly followers. iv The book Melville began around late October or early November 1851 also embodied Melville's grievances against the ...
... Seven Gables on conventions of Gothic and sentimental romance: mysterious family relationships, enigmatical recollections of long past events, suspenseful unraveling of dark, long-kept secrets, contrasting blonde 17 TOWARD A KRAKEN BOOK.
... secrets, contrasting blonde and dark-haired heroines, portraits charged with mysterious significance, and landscapes symbolical of mental states. He was also probably remembering that his former adviser, Evert Duyckinck, and his brother ...
... secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death” (7). The account of youthful obliviousness continues as the narrator names the single “hiatus” in the “sweetly-writ” manuscript, the “illuminated scroll” of his ...
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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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