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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... thought of writing not merely some Berkshire 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 ...
... thoughts and wayward speculations” (Correspondence 206). During that late summer and early fall, he had time for a thoroughgoing assessment of the direction of his career as well as the nature of his next work. He had built a career ...
... thought—and repeatedly talked to his publishers—in terms of the fresh fields a new venture was taking him into, the newness, the novelty of the manuscript at hand. After finishing Mardi, where he had brashly combined lushly written ...
... thought processes, and perceptions of his hero. In working out his ambitious design for his new work, Melville clearly determined to draw upon his recent surroundings and experiences as well as older family situations and household ...
... thought that his mind had wandered away across the ocean to the boulevards of Paris, and even decades later Melville managed to think of Thomas (however unrealistically) as a refugee from Versailles. In that house (after early 1851 ...
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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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