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

Title
American terror [electronic resource] : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville / Paul Hurh.
Author
Hurh, Paul.
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

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1 online resource (x, 298 pages)
Uniform Title
American terror (Online)
Alternative Title
American terror (Online)
Subject
  • 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
  • Terror in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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".
LCCN
2014042839
OCLC
ssj0001483834
Author
Hurh, Paul.
Title
American terror [electronic resource] : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville / Paul Hurh.
Imprint
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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