
Romancing the Shadow
Poe and Race
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 19. July 2001
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-19-513710-1 (ISBN)
Description
Edgar Allen Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works' subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-century Southerner, Poe was a deeply ambiguous figure, evading race issues while living among them, and traversing the North-South border with little sensitivity to its political implications. In this tightly organized volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author and his work as racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
13 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
13 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
659 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513710-1 (9780195137101)
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Editor
William A. Read Professor of EnglishWilliam A. Read Professor of English, Louisiana State University
Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary TheoryJoseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania