American terror : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville / Paul Hurh.
| Author/creator | Hurh, Paul author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015] |
| Description | x, 298 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2014042839 |
| ISBN | 9780804791144 |
| ISBN | 0804791147 hardcover alkaline paper |