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

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".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2014042839
ISBN9780804791144
ISBN0804791147 hardcover alkaline paper