num_pages: 286
description: The Power of Blackness is a profound and searching reinterpretation of Hawthorne, Poe and Melville, the three classic American masters of fiction. It is also an experiment in critical method, an exploration of the myth-making process by way of what may come to be known as literary iconology.
language: English
title: The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville
titlecomplete: The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville
genres: Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 27
publisher: Ohio University Press