Reading Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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219 Abbot, The (Scott), 19 Ahab (in Moby-Dick), 22, 26, 109, 168, 191 All Souls Church (Unitarian, New York City), 14 Alroy (Disraeli), 19 Apostle (in Pierre), 125, 138 Apostles (biblical), 74 Apostles’, the (building, in Pierre), 30, 122, 125, 127–28, 130–31, 133–34, 137, 138, 141–42, 156, 158–59, 162, 164, 166, 169 “Argument against Abolishing Christianity, An” (Swift), 114 Arrowhead, 1–3, 9–10, 13–14, 28, 178, 203 Arvin, Newton, 69, 190 Autobiographical elements in Pierre, vii–viii, 4, 6–7, 8–13, 160, 187–91, 197, 199, 208–9, 211 Bacon, Francis, 114 Balanced Rock, 7 Barber, Patricia, 203 Battle-Pieces (Melville), 205 Baym, Nina, 190–91, 195 Beauty, 19, 29, 34–36, 40, 43–51, 53, 56, 58, 61, 63, 72, 75, 82, 92, 100, 105, 132, 134, 160, 162, 166, 187. See also Grief; Truth Bentley, Richard, 26, 47, 176–79, 183, 192, 194, 196, 198, 207–8 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 206–9 Berkshire, Berkshires (county and mountains, Massachusetts), 1–2, 4, 7–9, 14, 17–18, 49, 180, 209 Bible, 6, 67, 74, 79, 113, 117. See also Ecclesiastes , book of; Exodus, book of; John, book of; Luke, book of; Matthew, book of; Sermon on the Mount Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 179 Boswell, James, 149 Braswell, William, 51, 188–91, 194 Brewster, Dr. John, 2, 13, 25, 203 Bride of Lammermoor, The (Scott), 19, 46 Brodhead, Richard H., 196, 205–6, 210 Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre, 18 Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 18 Browne, Sir Thomas, 6, 11 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle, first Baron Lytton, 4, 19–21, 96; Pelham, 19; Zanoni , 4, 20–21 Bunyan, John, 16 Burton, Robert, 11 Byron, George Gordon, sixth baron, 8, 120 Carlyle, Thomas, 6, 62–63, 93, 95–96, 198; Sartor Resartus, 62–63, 95 Casks (in Pierre), 112 Charvat, William, 193, 195–98 Christianity: absolute, 17, 20–21, 23, 35, 72–73, 77, 80, 87, 91, 113–19, 121, 137, 144, 147; nominal, 13–17, 21, 23, 35–36, 44, 48, 50, 56, 65, 70, 73–74, 78–80, 84, 91, 113–19, 138 “Chronometricals and Horologicals” (pamphlet , in Pierre), 16–17, 27, 30, 112–19, 121, 124, 128–29, 132, 137, 168–69, 172, 181–82 Church of the Messiah (Unitarian, New York City), 14 Clifford, John H., 179 Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, The (Melville), 184, 186, 203 Consciousness and unconsciousness, 7, 12, 20–23, 37, 40–41, 44, 55–59, 61–62, 65– Index 220 Consciousness and unconsciousness (continued) 66, 69–71, 73, 75–77, 79–81, 83–84, 87, 89, 91, 95, 97, 99, 102, 105–9, 113, 119, 123–24, 128, 131, 137, 142, 168–70, 173, 187, 189 Contarini Fleming (Disraeli), 19 Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 22 Corinne (Staël), 46–47 Correspondence (Melville), 1–5, 7–8, 21, 23, 25, 27, 38, 142, 146, 148–49, 152, 156, 163– 64, 175–79, 185, 192, 194 Dante Alighieri, 55, 60, 70, 72, 94–95, 108; Inferno, 70, 94–96, 108, 154, 164, 170 Dates (servant, in Pierre), 30, 42, 104, 107, 110 Davis, Merrell R., 201 Deeds (actions), 17, 34, 37, 59, 62, 79, 95– 97, 99, 102, 109–10, 114–15, 136 De Quincey, Thomas, 6 Delbanco, Andrew, 191, 196, 210 Dewey, Orville, 14–15, 114, 155; “Human Destiny,” 15, 155 Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit, 155 Disraeli, Benjamin: Alroy, 19; Contarini Fleming, 19; Henrietta Temple, 19; Vivian Grey, 19 Donizetti, Gaetano, Lucia di Lammermoor, 19 Duyckinck, Evert A., 1–2, 4, 12, 18, 25, 28, 62, 146–48, 150–53, 156, 175, 181–82, 197–99, 201–2, 204 Duyckinck, George L., 4, 7, 12, 18, 28, 175, 197 Ecclesiastes, book of, 86 Eliot, T. S., 191 Enceladus (in Pierre), 164, 171–73, 183 Exodus, book of, 117 Falsgrave, Rev. Mr. (in Pierre), 14, 16, 73–75, 79, 92–93, 97, 110, 117, 119 Fate, 23, 29, 38–40, 47, 61–62, 64, 76, 78, 84, 89, 95, 97–98, 101–2, 105, 107, 133, 168 Fiction. See Gothic fiction; Novel-writing; Sentiments, sentimentality, and sentimental fiction Fields, James T., 2 Fixed Fate, 102. See also Fate Flaxman, John, 55 Flory, Wendy Stallard, 210 Frankenstein (Shelley), 20, 46–47 Freeman, John, 187 Free Will, 102. See also Fate Fugitive Slave Law, 14 Gansevoort, Peter (uncle of Herman Melville ), 6, 193 Gansevoort family, 6–7 Germany (Staël), 16 Gilman, William H., 201 Glendinning, Mary (mother, in Pierre), 21, 22, 29–30, 33–44, 48, 57–59, 65...