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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... sisters were at home at Arrowhead, the farmhouse south of Pittsfield, when the baby was born, and Melville's wife Elizabeth (Lizzie) seemed well enough for one sister, Augusta, to leave for New York City a few days later. Maria ...
... sisters to the farm, which he promptly named Arrowhead, and after several weeks he resumed work on his whaling book. In the Berkshires his literary plans multiplied so fast that in December 1850 he suggested facetiously that Duyckinck ...
... sisters, and various visitors and neighbors with picnics and climbing excursions in the Berkshire hills. He had a notably sociable August, when his neighbor, Sarah Morewood, took him in tow, along with his houseguests Evert and George ...
... sister and then subsequently meets her. The place where Pierre visits Isabel is not a little brown cottage such as Priscilla Melvill may already have been longing to live in. Instead, sited on the shore of a lake, it is a “small and low ...
... sister Helen (Herman's aunt, later Helen Souther) and that other members of the family were “to this day,” he presumed, “ignorant” of the younger woman's “existence”—suggests that the purpose was graver than an ordinary attempt to ...
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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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