Description |
xx, 121 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Poe and the questioning of selfhood -- Disfiguration in "The fall of the House of Usher"; or Poe's mad lines -- Recovering Byron: the search for origins in "The assignation" -- Poe/script: the death of the author in The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Hawthorne and moral perspectivism -- The poison of interpretation: Giovanni's reading of Rappaccini's daughter -- Melville and the fiction of social justice -- The violent forms of truth in Billy Budd, Sailor (an inside narrative) -- Epilogue: Henry James and the critical abyss: The Aspern papers. |
Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Fictional works.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Indexed Term |
Fiction in English American writers Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 & Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 - Critical studies. |
ISBN |
0826207073 alkaline paper |
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