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Poe's Difference

Poe's Difference

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1433169320
ISBN13: 9781433169328
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Sep 4 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Poe's Difference argues that Edgar Allan 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. This book emphasizes Poe's anachronisms to make a number of theoretical, pedagogical, literary historical, and political claims about the backwardness of antebellum U.S. culture. Some time ago Michael Colacurcio issued the challenge that 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.

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