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American Flaneur - The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe

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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.

List of contents

1. The Physiognomy of the Flaneur 2. Neither In nor Out of the Market 3. The Sacred Fury of the Cosmic Flaneur 4. Physiognomic Revelation: Faces and Interiors 5. Imperfect Readings of Perfect Plots Notes Works Cited

About the author

James Werner teaches English at Queens College, and is Senior Writer for the Chancellor of the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. from CUNY's Graduate School and University Center. His articles appear in TheEdgar Allan Poe Review, American TranscendentalQuarterly, American Periodicals, and The Mid-AtlanticAlmanack.

Product details

Authors James Werner
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 16.11.2011
 
EAN 9780415514743
ISBN 978-0-415-51474-3
No. of pages 200
Series Studies in Major Literary Authors
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism

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