The seasoned Melville scholars Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker teamed up to write Reading Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (Louisiana State University Press). Melville's sensationalistic 1852 novel Pierre features a deceased unfaithful husband (who resembles Melville's own deceased father), an incestuous mother-son relationship, and an incestuous brother-sister relationship (half-brother and half-sister).
