Ebook: American terror: the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville
Author: Edwards Jonathan, Hurh Paul, Melville Herman, Poe Edgar Allan
- Tags: American literature, American literature--History and criticism, Terror in literature, Criticism interpretation etc, Edwards Jonathan -- 1703-1758 -- Criticism and interpretation, Poe Edgar Allan -- 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation, Melville Herman -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation, American literature -- History and criticism, Edwards Jonathan -- 1703-1758, Melville Herman -- 1819-1891, Poe Edgar Allan -- 1809-1849
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- City: Stanford;California
- Language: English
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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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