Pierre Or, The Ambiguities: A Norton Critical Edition by Herman Melville (Englis

Description: Pierre Or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine, Cindy Weinstein Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melvilles own life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This Norton Critical Edition includes:? The Harper & Brothers 1852 first edition of the novel, accompanied by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinsteins editorial matter.? Six illustrations.? Contextual and source materials, including letters, responses to Pierre by Melvilles contemporaries, and works by Daniel Webster, Thomas Cole, James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others, that give readers a sense of Pierres time and place.? Seven critical essays on Pierres major themes by Sacvan Bercovitch, James Creech, Samuel Otter, Wyn Kelley, Cindy Weinstein, Jeffory A. Clymer, and Dominic Mastroianni.? A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography. Author Biography Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third child of Maria and Allan Gansevoort Melvill. (The final e was added to the family name later.) His fathers financial difficulties and his early death while Melville was still a youth disrupted his formal education. Instead, Melville tried his hand at a variety of occupations before joining the crew of a merchant ship bound for England in 1839. Two years later he sailed to the South Seas aboard the whaler Acushnet. His early fiction, like the novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), drew upon and often embellished his exotic maritime adventures, earning him both popular and critical acclaim. But by the time he published Moby-Dick in 1851, his writing career was in decline, as both sales and praise of his works dwindled. Although he would subsequently publish two more novels and a number of short stories—including the masterpieces "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno"—Melville spent the last three decades of his life primarily writing poetry. Largely forgotten at the time of his death on April 19, 1891, Melville, along with his unfinished novella Billy Budd, was rediscovered and his reputation revived in the early decades of the twentieth century. Robert S. Levine (Ph.D. Stanford; General Editor and Editor, 1820–1865) is Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism; The Lives of Frederick Douglas; Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies; and (upcoming from Norton) The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He has edited a number of books, including The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Norton Critical Editions of Hawthornes The House of the Seven Gables and Melvilles Pierre. Levine has received fellowships from the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 the American Literature Section of the MLA awarded him the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies. Cindy Weinstein is Vice Provost and Professor of English at California Institute of Technology. She is the author of Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe. She is co-editor of American Literatures Aesthetic Dimensions and The Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900-1950. Details ISBN0393938948 Author Cindy Weinstein Short Title PIERRE Pages 256 Series Norton Critical Editions Language English ISBN-10 0393938948 ISBN-13 9780393938944 Media Book Format Paperback Residence New York City New York, US Birth 1819 Death 1891 Year 2017 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Cindy Weinstein Illustrations illustrations Edition 1st UK Release Date 2017-04-04 AU Release Date 2017-04-04 NZ Release Date 2017-04-04 US Release Date 2017-04-04 Publisher WW Norton & Co Edition Description Critical edition Publication Date 2017-04-04 Imprint WW Norton & Co Subtitle A Norton Critical Edition DEWEY 813.309 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168410028;

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