Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
Studies in Major Literary Authors : The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe - James Werner

Studies in Major Literary Authors

The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe

By: James Werner

Paperback | 16 November 2011 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $108.00

$94.99

12%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $23.75 with

 or 

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

American Flaneur investigates the connections between Edgar A. Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - suggested in Walter Benjamin's discussion of Baudelaire. This study illustrates the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims, and uses the flaneur to illuminate Poe's intimate yet ambivalent relationship to his surrounding culture.
While James V. Werner concentrates on Poe's fiction, this book treats many areas of nineteenth-century intellectual and popular culture, including science and pseudo-science, the American magazine marketplace, urban topology, the grotesque, labyrinths, narratives of exploration and discovery, and cosmological treatises. Werner draws on Marxist, reader response and periodical theories while reconstructing Poe through examinations of ephemeral texts of the time.

More in Literature, Poetry & Plays

The Mushroom Tapes : Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial - Helen Garner
Ghost Stories : A Memoir - Siri Hustvedt

RRP $34.99

$28.99

17%
OFF
No Hiding From the Woman in the Moon - Bruce Pascoe

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF
The Ruin of Magic : Longing and Belonging in Strange Times - Kate Holden
Light and Thread - Han Kang

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
When Words Fail Us : Truth beyond time - Stan Grant

RRP $26.99

$24.75

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein : A Fiction - Deborah Levy

RRP $42.99

$34.99

19%
OFF
You're Going to Be OK : (Because You're F*cked No Matter What) - Darby Hudson
Loves of Our Lives : Poems for hopeful hearts - Josie Balka

RRP $39.99

$31.99

20%
OFF
Macbeth : No Fear Shakespeare - William Shakespeare

RRP $14.99

$11.99

20%
OFF
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories - Jim Haynes

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Voynich Manuscript - Raymond Clemens

RRP $82.95

$60.75

27%
OFF
Pride and Prejudice : Oxford World's Classics - Jane Austen

RRP $14.95

$11.99

20%
OFF
Dropbear : Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize - Evelyn Araluen

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Heart of Amoz Oz : Love, War & Grief - Dvir Abramovich

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF