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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... writing Pierre; or, The Ambiguities about the time of the birth of his son Stanwix on 22 October 1851, perhaps before, perhaps soon afterward. Melville's mother and three of his sisters were at home at Arrowhead, the farmhouse south of ...
Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker. material for writing up the story of the Revolutionary exile Israel Potter. As early as August 1850 he may have thought of writing not merely some Berkshire scenes for the boyhood of the exile (something he ...
... writing seriously enough that in September he did not immediately read two novels his neighbor Sarah Morewood sent him (Harriet Martineau's The Hour and the Man and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni), novels which might have distracted him ...
... writer could use contemporary America as the setting for a Gothic-flavored romance. Melville's response to Hawthorne's book when it had appeared the previous April was grounded both in pride of personal acquaintance and in pride of ...
... writing Pierre, she was enduring a miserable existence in remote Canandaigua, New York, far from any of her family, sustained by the hope that she could better her condition by finding constant employment for her needle near her ...
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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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