Add to ORKGThis essay considers the cultural fears and anxieties that are portrayed in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Drawing upon Tsalal’s natural hesitancy for nature to intermingle with itself, in addition to the tragically brutal clashing of white and black cultures, Poe highlights 19th-century United States’ desire for segregation between North and South, while also depicting southern slave owners’ looming fear of slave uprisings
The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture...
My research investigates the different emotions used in British anti-slavery literature. Abolitionis...
The traditional view of Poe and his place in American literature is the view that he lived and wrote...
In “Tsalal: The 19th Century American Nightmare” I examine Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur...
The article focuses on the contradictory construction of a free and self-reliant (and \u201cimperial...
After being denied tenure for expanding his teaching of race and literary history beyond exclusively...
This paper offers a comparative reading of Herman Melville’s romance Moby Dick“ (1851) and George Sa...
The attempt to situate historically the connections between African blacks and the sea represents ju...
The British Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the American Edgar Allan Poe shared a number of similarities...
For a long time, traditional critics read Edgar Allan Poe as an aesthete unconcerned with history an...
Racism and the “othering” of aboriginal racial groups have traditionally pervaded American cultural ...
Edgar Allan Poe and his works have always been an important part of American literature and American...
In my previous essay on Poe, which appeared in the issue before last of this periodical (Vol. 10, No...
What is the American Gothic a reaction to? Whereas other thinkers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne locate...
Abstract: In this essay we draw a historiographical line from J. M. W. Turner’s Slavers Throwing Ove...
The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture...
My research investigates the different emotions used in British anti-slavery literature. Abolitionis...
The traditional view of Poe and his place in American literature is the view that he lived and wrote...
In “Tsalal: The 19th Century American Nightmare” I examine Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur...
The article focuses on the contradictory construction of a free and self-reliant (and \u201cimperial...
After being denied tenure for expanding his teaching of race and literary history beyond exclusively...
This paper offers a comparative reading of Herman Melville’s romance Moby Dick“ (1851) and George Sa...
The attempt to situate historically the connections between African blacks and the sea represents ju...
The British Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the American Edgar Allan Poe shared a number of similarities...
For a long time, traditional critics read Edgar Allan Poe as an aesthete unconcerned with history an...
Racism and the “othering” of aboriginal racial groups have traditionally pervaded American cultural ...
Edgar Allan Poe and his works have always been an important part of American literature and American...
In my previous essay on Poe, which appeared in the issue before last of this periodical (Vol. 10, No...
What is the American Gothic a reaction to? Whereas other thinkers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne locate...
Abstract: In this essay we draw a historiographical line from J. M. W. Turner’s Slavers Throwing Ove...
The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture...
My research investigates the different emotions used in British anti-slavery literature. Abolitionis...
The traditional view of Poe and his place in American literature is the view that he lived and wrote...