Figures of Edgar Allan Poe : authorship, antebellum literature, and transatlantic rhetoric /
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2017.
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| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia ;
56. Bd. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on the Text; Introduction; Part I. Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric; 1 Towards a Rhetoric of Authorship: Theoretical, Poetical, and Performative Figures of the Author; 2 "Under the Ban of the Empire of Literature": Print Culture, the Rise of the Author, and the Transatlantic Dispersal of Rhetoric, 1776-1849; Part II. The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe; 3 "Letters of Recommendation": The Transatlantic Poet-Critic between the Rules of Rhetoric and Romantic Aesthetics.
- 4 The Genius Rhetorician: The Rhetoric of "The Philosophy of Composition"5 "The Ingenuity of Unravelling": Abductive Powers and Rhetorical Inventors in the Tales of Ratiocination; 6 The Jingle-Man and the Damned Rhetorician: Poetry, Elocution, and the Political Rationale of Verse; 7 "The Only Proper Stage for the Literary Histrio": Delivery and its Dangers in the Antebellum Cultures of Rhetoric and Print; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.