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American terror: the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville

By Edwards , Edgar Allan , Jonathan;Hurh , Paul;Melville , Herman;Poe

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780804791144, 9780804794510, 0804794510
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3531466 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\313
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? 'American Terror' returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors - Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville - who not only wrote works of terror, but who defended, theorised, and championed it.

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