American Flaneur : The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe
by
James Werner
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Major Literary Authors
ISBN-10
0415969778
ISBN-13
9780415969772
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 9th, 2004
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims and intimate yet ambivalent relationship with his surrounding culture.
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.
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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