Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe: Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition

by William E. Engel

Book Overview

Bringing to bear his expertise in the early modern emblem tradition, William E. Engel traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, this is the first book to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their decisions about compositional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138261637
• ISBN13: 9781138261631
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"