(Ebook) The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe Authorship Antebellum Literature and Transatlantic Rhetoric 1st Edition by Gero Guttzeit ISBN 978-3110518146 3110518147

(Ebook) The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe Authorship Antebellum Literature and Transatlantic Rhetoric 1st Edition by Gero Guttzeit ISBN 978-3110518146 3110518147

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ISBN 10: 3110518147

ISBN 13:  978-3110518146

Author: Gero F. H. Guttzeit

The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe is the first study to address the rhetorical dimensions of Poe’s textual and discursive practices. It argues that Poe is a figure and figurer of the emergence of the modern understanding of literature in the early nineteenth century that resulted from the birth of the romantic author and the so-called ‘death of rhetoric’. Building on accounts of Poe as a skilled navigator of American antebellum print culture, Gero Guttzeit reinterprets Poe as representative of the vital role that transatlantic rhetoric played in antebellum literature. He investigates rhetorical figures of the author in Poe’s critical writings, tales, poems, and lectures to give a new account of Poe’s significance for antebellum literary culture. In so doing, he also proposes a general rhetorical theory of theoretical, poetical, and performative figures of the author. Beyond Poe studies, the book intervenes in current debates on the romantic origins of the modern author and demonstrates that rhetorical theory offers new ways of exploring authorship beyond the nineteenth century.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric

1. Towards a Rhetoric of Authorship: Theoretical, Poetical, and Performative Figures of the Author
    1.1 The Figures of the Author
    1.2 Theoretical, Poetical, and Performative Figures of the Author

2. "Under the Ban of the Empire of Literature": Print Culture, the Rise of the Author, and the Transatlantic Dispersal of Rhetoric, 1776–1849
    2.1 The Author, Rhetoric, and the Emergence of Literature
    2.2 The Effects of Poetry from the New Rhetoric to Romantic Aesthetics
    2.3 "How to Write a Blackwood Article": Transatlantic Antebellum Cultures of Print and Rhetoric

Part II: The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe

3. "Letters of Recommendation": The Transatlantic Poet-Critic between the Rules of Rhetoric and Romantic Aesthetics
    3.1 The Poet-Critic in the "Letter to B-"
    3.2 The Rules of Rhetoric and Doggerel Aesthetics

4. The Genius Rhetorician: The Rhetoric of "The Philosophy of Composition"
 4.1 Poe, Dickens, Godwin and the Question of Writing Backwards
 4.2 From "The Philosophy of Composition" to The Philosophy of Rhetoric
 4.3 The Poetical Madness of Composition
 4.4 Godwin's Autocommentary
 4.5 Figuring the Rhetorical Poet-Critic in Times of Romanticism

5. "The Ingenuity of Unravelling": Abductive Powers and Rhetorical Inventors in the Tales of Ratiocination
 5.1 The Author's and Detective's Creative and Resolvent Powers
 5.2 Author and Detective as Rhetorical Inventors of Truth

6. The Jingle-Man and the Damned Rhetorician: Poetry, Elocution, and the Political Rationale of Verse
 6.1 Poe and the Failure to Distinguish Between Poetry and Rhetoric: A Short Reception History
 6.2 The Elocutionary Production of Beauty: Style and Performance in "Ulalume"
 6.3 "A Well Understood Poetical License": The Politics of Performance in "The Rationale of Verse"

7. "The Only Proper Stage for the Literary Histrio": Delivery and its Dangers in the Antebellum Cultures of Rhetoric and Print
 7.1 "Stand and Deliver": Poe's Boston Lyceum Appearance and its Aftermath
 7.2 "The Characteristics of a Popular Performer": Acting Against "Loss of Breath"
 7.3 "X-ing a Paragrab": Technological Delivery, Anastatic Printing and Crossing Out the Author

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