Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/BjhU5a American Flaneur The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe By: James Werner Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415514743, 0415514746 eText ISBN: 9781135879846, 1135879842 Edition: 1st Pages: 200 Copyright year: 2004 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781135879846R90 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. Additional ISBNs 9786610165216, 9780203492826, 9781280165214, 6610165211, 020349282X, 1280165219, 9780415969772, 0415969778
