American terror : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hurh, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Edwards, Jonathan, > 1703-1758 > Criticism and interpretation.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Edwards, Jonathan, > 1703-1758.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849.
American literature > History and criticism.
Terror in literature.
Terreur dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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