The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Brossura

Poe, Edgar Allan

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ISBN 10: 1551118386 ISBN 13: 9781551118383

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Edgar Allan Poe’s only long fiction has provoked intense scholarly discussions about its meaning since its first publication. The novel relates the adventures of Pym after he stows away on a whaling ship, where he endures starvation, encounters with cannibals, a whirlpool, and finally a journey to an Antarctic sea. It draws on the conventions of travel writing and science fiction, and on Poe’s own experiences at sea, but is ultimately in a category of its own.

Appendices include virtually all of the contemporary sources of exploration and south polar navigation that Poe consulted and adapted to the narrative, together with reviews and notices of Pym and a sampling of responses to the novel from a wide array of authors, from Herman Melville to Jules Verne. Seven illustrations are also included.

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The late Frederick S. Frank was Professor Emeritus of English at Allegheny College. He published widely on Gothic literature and was the editor of the Broadview Edition of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother.

Diane Long Hoeveler is Professor of English at Marquette University.

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• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1551118386
• ISBN 13: 9781551118383
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 294
• Redattore: Frank Frederick S., Hoeveler Diane Long