When Pierre was published one year after Moby-Dick, expectations were high. Readers expected—and Melville delivered—adventure, humor, and brilliance. Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Melville’s own life

Levine, Robert S.

Melville, Herman

Weinstein, Cindy

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Contents
Introduction vii
A Note on the Text and Annotations xix
Acknowl edgments xxi
The Text of Pierre; or, the Ambiguities 1
Contexts 359
cultural contexts 361
Daniel Webster  •  From A Discourse in Commemoration 
of the Lives and Ser vices of John Adams and 
Thomas Jefferson 361
Thomas Cole  •  From Essay on American Scenery 365
James Fenimore Cooper  •  From Preface to The Redskins 370
Lydia Maria Child  •  From Letters from New- York 373
Ralph Waldo Emerson  •  From Self- Reliance 379
•  From The Transcendentalist 383
John L. O’ Sullivan  •  From The  Great Nation of Futurity 384
Cornelius Mathews  •  From Americanism 388
Herman Melville  •  From Hawthorne and His Mosses 393
Nathaniel Hawthorne  •  From The House of the 
Seven Gables 400
Susan Warner  •  From The Wide, Wide World 403
William Alexander Alcott  •  From The Young Man’s Guide 409
Thomas Low Nichols and Mary Gove Nichols  •  From 
Marriage: Its History, Character, and Results 412
letters 417
Herman Melville  •  To Evert A. Duyckinck, 
3 March 1849 417
 •  To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [16 April?] 1851 419
 •  To Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, 8 January 1852 421
 •  To Richard Bentley, 16 April 1852 422
Richard Bentley  •  To Herman Melville, 5 May 1852 424
con temporary responses 427
Anonymous  •  [From the Sublime to the Ridicu lous] 427
Evert A. Duyckinck  •  [A Literary Mare’s Nest] 428
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Anonymous  •  Herman Melville Crazy 431
Anonymous  •  [Insignifi cant Signifi cancies] 431
Anonymous  •  [Intolerably Unhealthy] 432
George Washington Peck  •  [A Bad Book!] 432
Anonymous  •  [“Young Yankee” Sentimentalism] 436
Fitz- James O’Brien  •  [Inexcusable Insanity] 437
illustrations 440
Thomas Cole  •  A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain 
House, Catskill Mountains, Morning 440
John Rubens Smith  •  Allan Melvill 441
Ezra Ames  •  Allan Melvill 442
Gaspard Marsy  •  Enceladus 443
[Guido Reni?]  •  Beatrice Cenci[?] 444
Maurice Sendak  •  “Youth is hot, and temptation strong” 445
Criticism 447
Sacvan Bercovitch  •  From Pierre, or the Ambiguities 
of American Literary History 449
James Creech  •  From Pierre; or, The Ambiguities: 
A Camp Reading 464
Samuel Otter  •  The Eden of  Saddle Meadows: 
Landscape and Ideology in Pierre 473
Wyn Kelley  •  Pierre’s Domestic Ambiguities 496
Cindy Weinstein  •  We Are  Family: Melville’s Pierre 519
Jeffory A. Clymer  •  Property and Selfhood in 
Herman Melville’s Pierre 541
Dominic Mastroianni  •  From Revolutionary Time 
and Democracy’s  Causes in Melville’s Pierre 565
Herman Melville: A Chronology 585
Selected Bibliography 589
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