J. Gerald (Hrsg.) Kennedy

A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the republic of letters in the United States. This Historical Guide contains an introduction that considers the tensions between Poe's otherworldly settings and his historically marked representations of violence, as well as a capsule… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-972813-8
EAN: 9780199728138
Produktnummer: 13927195
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 13'333 KB
Abbildungen: 24 halftones

Über den Autor

J. Gerald Kennedy is Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He was a consultant and on-camera authority on Poe in the television special, The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe, for Arts & Entertainment cable channel (Biography series).