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Edgar Allan Poe : beyond gothicism / / edited by James M. Hutchisson ; contributors, Amy C. Branam [and eleven others] |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : University of Delaware Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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1-322-06486-5 |
1-61149-069-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Poe's "Philosophy of Furniture" and the Aesthetics of Fictional Design; Chapter Two: Race, Pirates, and Intellect: A Reading of Poe's "The Gold-Bug"; Chapter Three: Storytelling, Narrative Authority, and Death in "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade"; Chapter Four: The Man in the Text: Desire, Masculinity, and the Development of Poe's Detective Fiction; Chapter Five: Gothic Displacements: Poe's South in Politian; Chapter Six: Poe in the Ragged Mountains: Environmental History and Romantic Aesthetics |
Chapter Seven: "King Pest" and the Tales of the Folio ClubChapter Eight: Understanding "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling"; Chapter Nine: "Eyes Which Behold": Poe's "Domain of Arnheim" and the Science of Vision; Chapter Ten: "A Species of Literature Almost Beneath Contempt": Edgar Allan Poe and the World of Literary Competitions; Chapter Eleven: Poe's Early Criticism of American Fiction: The Southern Literary Messenger and the Fiction of Robert Montgomery Bird; Chapter Twelve: Mad Ravings or Sound Thinking?: "The Philosophy of Composition" and Poe's Parodic Raven; Index |
About the Contributors |
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Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social |
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satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. In Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism, twelve authors examine this 'other' Poe. |
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