Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America
- ISBN-10
- 1609384032
- ISBN-13
- 9781609384036
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 223
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-04-15
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Author
- Sara L. Crosby
Description
According to Sara Crosby, the new popular ‘power of horror’—in writings by Poe and many others—gave American authors a new way of moving beyond beauty through the ‘poisonous muse.’ This new power corresponds to the vitalizing changes in Jacksonian America and brings with it a major change in US literary history. Her study of these changes in the US cultural scene is an incredibly engaging, vibrant narrative.
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