American terror : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hurh, Paul (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Terror in literature. Edwards, Jonathan, > 1703-1758 > Criticism and interpretation. Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation. Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : reopening darkness
Awakening terror : hellfire preaching, Jonathan Edwards, and the logic of revivalist affect
Critical terrors : Poe's aesthetic terror and the claims of art after Jena
The air of analysis : resolution and composition in Poe's sublime and confessional tales
The uneven balance : dialectical terror in Moby-Dick
Dread : space, time, and automata in The piazza tales
Afterword : "some dim, random way."