Robert A. Lee – författare

A major reassessment of Hawthorne. The great novels are re-evaluated, as are the stories, and attention is paid to Hawthorne's use of the American past, of Nature, and to his understanding of the newly emerging American history and culture and his place within the context of European literature.

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"He has a very high and noble nature, and [is] better worth immortality than most of us"óso Hawthorne wrote of Herman Melville in his journal for 1856. This collection of essays undertakes to re-examine the "nobility" of Melville's powerful and engaging imagination. Not only are his primary motifs of "the journey" and the quest for Truth given attention, but also his subtleties as a great maker of fiction are analysed. Hence the collection as a whole stresses Melville's way with language and irony and his serious, inventive playfulness as a writer.

Contents: Introduction, A. Robert Lee; Reflections On, and In, "The Fall of the House of Usher," Mark Kinkead-Weekes; Doodling America: Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle," Harold Beaver; Poe's Stories of Premature Burial: "That Ere Kind of Style," Arnold Goldman; Poe's Comic Vision and Southwestern Humour, James Justus; Was the Chevalier Left-Handed? Poe's Dupin Stories, Robert Giddings; A Serious Case? Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, A. Robert Lee; "A Strange Sound, As of a Harp-string Broken": The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, David Murray; Law, Lawlessness and Philosophy in Edgar Allan Poe, Eric Mottram; "I am a Virginian": Edgar Allan Poe and the South, Richard Gray; Poe in France: A Myth Revisited, John Weightman