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Poe's difference / R.C. De Prospo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Prospo, R. C., 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation.
- Poe, Edgar Allan.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 191 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2019]
- Summary:
- "Poe's Difference argues that Poe has much more in common with early American, medieval, and ancient writers than with the modern and post-modern ones with whom the writer is so often associated. R.C. De Prospo emphasizes Poe's anachronisms to make a number of theoretical, pedagogical, literary historical, and political claims about the backwardness of antebellum US culture generally. Some time ago Michael Colacurcio issued the challenge: 'the full case for the Puritan character of Poe's 'horror' remains to be made.' Although going back a good deal further than just to the 'Puritans,' Poe's Difference aspires fully to make precisely this case"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword : Poe's difference
- "An anomaly on the face of the earth": Poe's reviews
- Poe's Pym/Stevenson's Jim
- Pym, Prometheus, and the marinere
- Afterword : Poe's Parelcon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781433169328
- 1433169320
- OCLC:
- 1099538882
- Publisher Number:
- 99984106623
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