American Flaneur : The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe

Name: American Flaneur
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415514743
Price: 9700 KES
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ISBN: 9780415514743

by James Werner

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Studies in Major Literary Authors

ISBN-10 0415514746

ISBN-13 9780415514743

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 16th, 2011

Print length 200 Pages

Weight 306 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 22.90 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

KSh 9,700.00

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American Flaneur investigates the connections between Edgar A. Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - suggested in Walter Benjamin''s discussion of Baudelaire. This study illustrates the centrality of the flaneur to Poe''s literary aims, and uses the flaneur to illuminate Poe''s intimate yet ambivalent relationship to his surrounding culture.
While James V. Werner concentrates on Poe''s fiction, this book treats many areas of nineteenth-century intellectual and popular culture, including science and pseudo-science, the American magazine marketplace, urban topology, the grotesque, labyrinths, narratives of exploration and discovery, and cosmological treatises. Werner draws on Marxist, reader response and periodical theories while reconstructing Poe through examinations of ephemeral texts of the time.

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