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Pierre Or, The Ambiguities: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

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Pierre Or, The Ambiguities: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

When Pierre was published one year after Moby-Dick, expectations were high. Readers expectedâ€•and Melville deliveredâ€•adventure, humor, and brilliance. Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Melvilleâ€™s own life.
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
Â· The Harper & Brothers 1852 first edition of the novel, accompanied by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinsteinâ€™s editorial matter.
Â· Six illustrations.
Â· Contextual and source materials, including letters, responses to Pierre by Melvilleâ€™s 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 Pierreâ€™s time and place.
Â· Seven critical essays on Pierreâ€™s major themes by Sacvan Bercovitch, James Creech, Samuel Otter, Wyn Kelley, Cindy Weinstein, Jeffory A. Clymer, and Dominic Mastroianni.
Â· A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393938944
ReleaseDate 2017-02-24
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780393938944

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