We are family: Melville's Pierre.

From: Leviathan | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Weinstein, Cindy | Copyright information

Despite the fact that, today, Melville's reputation and readership is greater than those of Caroline Lee Hentz's or Mary Jane Holmes's, two very popular antebellum writers, and despite Pierre's harangues against "the countless tribes of common novels," Pierre was (and is) desperate to be one of them. (1) On the most practical level, Melville wanted to write a popular novel that would make money. On a more theoretical level, "common novels" begin with absent parents who leave their ...

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