The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

Autor: Eng, David L.
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822347156
eISBN Pdf: 9780822392828
Lloc de publicació: Potomac , United States
Any de publicació: 1984
Pàgines: 216
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

An examination of Poe's use of the conventions of the sublime and the picturesque, with a brief history of both traditions as they were developed in eighteenth-century America. "...an informative and provocative study." -Glen A. Omans, Poe Studies Association Newsletter. "This is a book filled with new insights into individual tales and poems by Poe. ...It also provides a solid theoretical background for them." - Donald Barlow Stauffer, University of Mississippi Studies in English.

Contents
Chapter I: The Grand and the Fair: Poe, the American Landscape, and the Aesthetics of Nature
Chapter II: Poe and the Sublime: His Sea Tales in an Aesthetic Tradition
Chapter III: Poe and the Picturesque: Theory and Practice
Chapter IV: Picturesque Disorder: The Deceptive Dream Land of Poe's Fictional "Landscapes"
Chapter V: From Sublimity to Pictorialism: "Tamerlane," "Al Aaraaf," and Some Revisions in the Later Poetry
Chapter VI: Conclusion: The Interior Landscape
Index
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