A World of Words
A World of Words

Author: Michael J. S. Williams

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1988-03-11

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780822307808

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A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author and reader as a struggle for authority, on his awareness of the displacement of an "authorial writing self" by a "self as it is written," and on his debunking of the redemptive properties of the romantic symbol.

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

Author: Joel Myerson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-04-16

Total Pages: 790

ISBN-13: 0199716129

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The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.

Transatlantic Transcendentalism
Transatlantic Transcendentalism

Author: Samantha C Harvey

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0748681388

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This new study argues that Coleridge was so influential in America because he provided a framework for American intellectuals to address one of the great questions of European Romanticism: what is the relationship between the Romantic triad of nature, spi

Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism
Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism

Author: Tiffany K. Wayne

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1438109164

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Presents a reference guide to transcendentalism, with articles on significant works, writers, concepts and more.

Grim Phantasms
Grim Phantasms

Author: Michael L. Burduck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1351385194

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This title, originally published in 1992, presents an assessment of Poe’s short stories that treat horror, and more specifically how he manipulated the conventions of that horror to register subtly on the fears and phobias of his reading audiences. Short-stories examined include The Black Cat, Hop-Frog and Morella. This title also explores the theories of Stephen King and Benjamin Rush on the horror genre. This title will be of great interest to students of American Literature.

The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition
The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2004-10-28

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781551116365

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Hawthorne’s story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet “A” as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, Puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne’s writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the story, and contemporary reviews of the novel. New to the second edition are an updated critical introduction and bibliography and, in the appendices, additional writings by Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry James, and William Dean Howells.

The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)
The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1317206584

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First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature. It gathers together much material that had not been cited in previous works of this kind and secondary works relevant to literary Gothicism — biographies, memoirs and graphic arts. Part one cites items pertaining to significant authors of Gothic works and part two consists of subject headings, offering information about broad topics that evolve from or that have been linked with Gothicism. Three indexes are also provided to expedite searches for the contents of the entries. This book will be of interest to students of literature.