Poe's Difference
Publisher: Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781433169328
Description: "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"--