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Author:
Hurh, Paul, author.
Title:
American terror : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville / Paul Hurh.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
x, 298 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
American literature--History and criticism.
Terror in literature.
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.
Terror in literature.
Edwards, Jonathan,--1703-1758.
Poe, Edgar Allan,--1809-1849.
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891.
Edwards, Jonathan,--1703-1758.
Poe, Edgar Allan,--1809-1849.
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891.
Schrecken.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index.
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 -- Afterword : "some dim, random way".
ISBN:
0804791147 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804791144 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)894746190
LCCN:
2014042839
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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