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

Abstract

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

Keywords

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