Internalized Apocalypse? Ambiguities of Transcendentalism in Melville's Pierre, or, The Ambiguities

Abstrakt

The chapter interprets Melville's novel Pierre (1852) as an internalized Apocalypse revealing the problems of American Transcendentalism and, in broader terms, Romantic subjectivity.

Klíčová slova

• Melville
• apocalypse
• transcendentalism
• Pierre, or, the Ambiguities
• romanticism