The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe ：Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric ( Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series )

Publication subTitle ：Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric

Publication series ：Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

Author： Guttzeit Gero  

Publisher： De Gruyter‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9783110520156

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110518146

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Keyword： 文学评论、文学欣赏

Language： ENG

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Description

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Chapter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Note on the Text

Introduction

Part I. Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric

1 Towards a Rhetoric of Authorship: Theoretical, Poetical, and Performative Figures of the Author

2 “Under the Ban of the Empire of Literature”: Print Culture, the Rise of the Author, and the Transatlantic Dispersal of Rhetoric, 1776–1849

Part II. The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe

3 “Letters of Recommendation”: The Transatlantic Poet-Critic between the Rules of Rhetoric and Romantic Aesthetics

4 The Genius Rhetorician: The Rhetoric of “The Philosophy of Composition”

5 “The Ingenuity of Unravelling”: Abductive Powers and Rhetorical Inventors in the Tales of Ratiocination

6 The Jingle-Man and the Damned Rhetorician: Poetry, Elocution, and the Political Rationale of Verse

7 “The Only Proper Stage for the Literary Histrio”: Delivery and its Dangers in the Antebellum Cultures of Rhetoric and Print

Concluding Remarks

Works Cited

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

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