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  1. American terror
    the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville
    Author: Hurh, Paul
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? 'American Terror' returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? 'American Terror' returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors - Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville - who not only wrote works of terror, but who defended, theorised, and championed it.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804794510
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    RVK Categories: HR 1704 ; HS 3825 ; HT 6015 ; HT 6555
    Subjects: Literatur; Schrecken <Motiv>; American literature; Terror in literature
    Other subjects: Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, Illustrations (black and white)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. American terror
    the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville
    Author: Hurh, Paul
    Published: 2015; © 2015
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804791144; 9780804794510
    Subjects: American literature; Terror in literature; Literatur; Schrecken <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
    Scope: 1 online resource (313 pages)
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  3. American terror
    the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

    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... more

    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    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

     

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  4. American terror
    the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville
    Author: Hurh, Paul
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0804794510; 9780804794510
    RVK Categories: HS 3825 ; HR 1704 ; HR 1705 ; HT 6555 ; HT 6015
    Subjects: Terror in literature; American literature
    Other subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction : reopening darknessAwakening 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".