Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre-his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things-was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent-in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman-the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.
(Jacket Status: Jacketed)Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Published: 01/11/1993
Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
Pages: 992
Weight: 2.01lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 1.78d
ISBN: 9780679417408
Language: English
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