American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville

Author/Contributor(s):	Hurh, Paul
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/12/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Contrary to accounts that interpret terror in opposition to reason, this book shows how three authors famous for their works and theories of terror-Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville-developed a terror that incorporates, theorizes, and extends the Enlightenment claims of reason as feeling.