Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781501334559
Subjects: Poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849; American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
Description: "Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts addresses Poe's connections with, critical assessments of, borrowings from, and effect on his literary peers. It situates Poe within his own time and place, paying particular attention to his interactions with, and impact on, figures such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Harriet Jacobs, and Pauline Hopkins. John Cullen Gruesser rebuts myths that continue to cling to Poe, demonstrates Poe's ability to transform themes he encountered in the works of his literary contemporaries into great literature, and establishes the profound influence of Poe's invention of detective fiction on nineteenth-century American writers."--Bloomsbury Publishing.