Pierre, or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition
by Herman Melville edited by G. Thomas Tanselle, Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker
Northwestern University Press, 1971 Cloth: 978-0-8101-0266-8 | Paper: 978-0-8101-0267-5 Library of Congress Classification PS2380.F68 vol. 7 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.3
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Initially dismissed as "a dead failure" and "a bad book," and declined by Melville's British publisher, Pierre, or The Ambiguities has since struck critics as modern in its psychological probings and literary technique--fit, as Carl Van Vechten said in 1922, to be ranked with The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, and Ulysses. None of Melville's other "secondary" works has so regularly been acknowledged by its most thorough critics as a work of genuine grandeur, however flawed.
This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as the surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of the two issues and the two impressions of the single edition publishing in Melville's lifetime, it incorporates necessary emendations made by the series editors. This text of Pierre is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819–1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.
REVIEWS
"Pierre is a crucial volume in the Melville canon that continues to open new vistas toward an understanding not only of the author himself, but also of his family, his associates, and more broadly, the cosmopolitan culture of New York at mid-century." —Sanford E. Marovitz, The Melville Society— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Book I
Pierre Just Emerging from His Teens
Book II
Love, Delight, and Alarm
Book III
The Presentiment and the Verification
Book IV
Retrospective
Book V
Misgivings and Preparatives
Book VI
Isabel, and the First Part of the Story of Isabel
Book VII
Intermediate between Pierre's Two Interviews with Isabel at the Farm-house
Book VIII
The Second Interview, and the Second Part of the Story of Isabel · Their Immediate Impulsive Effect upon Pierre
Book IX
More Light, and the Gloom of That Light · More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom
Book X
The Unprecedented Final Resolution of Pierre
Book XI
He Crosses the Rubicon
Book XII
Isabel, Mrs. Glendinning, the Portrait, and Lucy
Book XIII
They Depart the Meadows
Book XIV
The Journey and the Pamphlet
Book XV
The Cousins
Book XVI
First Night of Their Arrival in the City
Book XVII
Young America in Literature
Book XVIII
Pierre, as a Juvenile Author, Reconsidered
Book XIX
The Church of the Apostles
Book XX
Charlie Millthorpe
Book XXI
Pierre Immaturity Attempts a Mature Book · Tidings from the Meadows · Plinlimmon
Book XXII
The Flower-Curtain Lifted from before a Tropical Author; with Some Remarks on the Transcendental Flesh-Brush Philosophy
Book XXIII
A Letter for Pierre · Isabel · Arrival of Lucy's Easel and Trunks at the Apostles'
Book XXIV
Lucy at the Apostles'
Book XXV
Lucy, Isabel, and Pierre · Pierre at His Book · Enceladus
Book XXVI
A Walk; a Foreign Portrait; a Sail · And the End
EDITORIAL APPENDIX
Historical Note
Howard,
Leon
Parker,
Hershel
Textual Record · By the Editors
Note on the Text
Discussions of Adopted Readings
List of Emendations
Report of Line-End Hyphenation
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Pierre, or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition
by Herman Melville edited by G. Thomas Tanselle, Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker
Northwestern University Press, 1971 Cloth: 978-0-8101-0266-8 Paper: 978-0-8101-0267-5
Initially dismissed as "a dead failure" and "a bad book," and declined by Melville's British publisher, Pierre, or The Ambiguities has since struck critics as modern in its psychological probings and literary technique--fit, as Carl Van Vechten said in 1922, to be ranked with The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, and Ulysses. None of Melville's other "secondary" works has so regularly been acknowledged by its most thorough critics as a work of genuine grandeur, however flawed.
This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as the surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of the two issues and the two impressions of the single edition publishing in Melville's lifetime, it incorporates necessary emendations made by the series editors. This text of Pierre is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819–1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.
REVIEWS
"Pierre is a crucial volume in the Melville canon that continues to open new vistas toward an understanding not only of the author himself, but also of his family, his associates, and more broadly, the cosmopolitan culture of New York at mid-century." —Sanford E. Marovitz, The Melville Society— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Book I
Pierre Just Emerging from His Teens
Book II
Love, Delight, and Alarm
Book III
The Presentiment and the Verification
Book IV
Retrospective
Book V
Misgivings and Preparatives
Book VI
Isabel, and the First Part of the Story of Isabel
Book VII
Intermediate between Pierre's Two Interviews with Isabel at the Farm-house
Book VIII
The Second Interview, and the Second Part of the Story of Isabel · Their Immediate Impulsive Effect upon Pierre
Book IX
More Light, and the Gloom of That Light · More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom
Book X
The Unprecedented Final Resolution of Pierre
Book XI
He Crosses the Rubicon
Book XII
Isabel, Mrs. Glendinning, the Portrait, and Lucy
Book XIII
They Depart the Meadows
Book XIV
The Journey and the Pamphlet
Book XV
The Cousins
Book XVI
First Night of Their Arrival in the City
Book XVII
Young America in Literature
Book XVIII
Pierre, as a Juvenile Author, Reconsidered
Book XIX
The Church of the Apostles
Book XX
Charlie Millthorpe
Book XXI
Pierre Immaturity Attempts a Mature Book · Tidings from the Meadows · Plinlimmon
Book XXII
The Flower-Curtain Lifted from before a Tropical Author; with Some Remarks on the Transcendental Flesh-Brush Philosophy
Book XXIII
A Letter for Pierre · Isabel · Arrival of Lucy's Easel and Trunks at the Apostles'
Book XXIV
Lucy at the Apostles'
Book XXV
Lucy, Isabel, and Pierre · Pierre at His Book · Enceladus
Book XXVI
A Walk; a Foreign Portrait; a Sail · And the End
EDITORIAL APPENDIX
Historical Note
Howard,
Leon
Parker,
Hershel
Textual Record · By the Editors
Note on the Text
Discussions of Adopted Readings
List of Emendations
Report of Line-End Hyphenation
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
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