Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy

by Louis A. Renza

Throughout the history of the United States, a commitment to both democratic political ideals and to capitalist realities has made privacy a persistently controversial issue. Only rarely, however, has privacy attracted the attention of American literary criticism. In his ingeniously argued new study, Louis A. Renza extends the idea of privacy beyond the received wisdom of its popular legal and psychological conceptions and, iconoclastically, beyond...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807127558
• ISBN13: 9780807127551
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"