The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe : : Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric / / Gero Guttzeit.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Guttzeit, Gero,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 56
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 256 p.)

The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe is the first study to address the rhetorical dimensions of Poe’s textual and discursive practices. It argues that Poe is a figure and figurer of the emergence of the modern understanding of literature in the early nineteenth century that resulted from the birth of the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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