Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century America

• Autor: John Cullen Gruesser
• Wydawnictwo: BLOOMSBURY 3PL
• Rok wydania: 2019 r.
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Format: 158x243 mm
• Objętość: 184 str.
• Stan: Nowa
• ISBN: 9781501334528

Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterpartsaddresses Poe's connections with, critical assessments of, borrowings from, and effect on his literary peers. It situates Poe within his own time and place, paying particular attention to his interactions with, and impact on, figures such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Harriet Jacobs, and Pauline Hopkins.

John Cullen Gruesser rebuts myths that continue to cling to Poe, demonstrates Poe's ability to transform themes he encountered in the works of his literary contemporaries into great literature, and establishes the profound influence of Poe's invention of detective fiction on nineteenth-