Title: Poe's difference /
Authors: De Prospo, R. C., 1949-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan, Criticism and interpretation.; Poe, Edgar Allan,
Abstract: "Poe's Difference argues that Poe has much more in common with early American, medieval, and ancient writers than with the modern and post-modern ones with whom the writer is so often associated. R.C. De Prospo emphasizes Poe's anachronisms to make a number of theoretical, pedagogical, literary historical, and political claims about the backwardness of antebellum US culture generally. Some time ago Michael Colacurcio issued the challenge: 'the full case for the Puritan character of Poe's 'horror' remains to be made.' Although going back a good deal further than just to the 'Puritans,' Poe's Difference aspires fully to make precisely this case"--
Contents: Foreword : Poe's difference -- "An anomaly on the face of the earth": Poe's reviews -- Poe's Pym/Stevenson's Jim -- Pym, Prometheus, and the marinere -- Afterword : Poe's Parelcon.