Pierce-ArrowSusan Howe Pierce Arrow takes as its point of departure the figure of Charles S. Peirce, the allusive nineteenth century philosopher scientist and founder of pragmatism, a man always on the periphery of the academic and social establishment yet intimately conjoined with them by birth and upbringing. Through Peirce and his wife Juliette, a lady of shadowy antecedents, Howe creates an intriguing nexus that explores the darker, melancholy sides of the