| Description |
1 online resource (x, 298 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : reopening darkness -- Awakening terror : hellfire preaching, Jonathan Edwards, and the logic of revivalist affect -- Critical terrors : Poe's aesthetic terror and the claims of art after Jena -- The air of analysis : resolution and composition in Poe's sublime and confessional tales -- The uneven balance : dialectical terror in Moby-Dick -- Dread : space, time, and automata in The piazza tales |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 fast |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Terror in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Terror in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804794510 |
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0804794510 |
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