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America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Fiction

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Frank Kelleter – 2021

This essay explores the relationship between Romanticism and colonial-capitalist modernity, focusing on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Domain of Arnheim" (1847) and "Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim'" (1849). It argues that Romantic styles of thought are mobilized by their own self-descriptions, and that these self-descriptions commit Romantic writing to notions of transcendence deeply concerned with processes of technological modernization. Poe's stories reflect this situation with an implicit media theory that both attacks and outbids Romantic desires for transcendent immediacy.

Title
America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Fiction
Author
Frank Kelleter
Publisher
De Gruyter
Location
Berlin/Boston
Keywords
Book Chapter; RA 1: Competing Communities
Date
2021
Source(s)
Appeared in
Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, Jan Stievermann (Eds.): Handbook of American Romanticism (= Handbooks of English and American Studies 14)
Type
Text
Size or Duration
207–226
Coverage
This publication is the result of work carried out in Research Area 1: Competing Communities.

How to cite:
Frank Kelleter. "America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Fiction." In Handbook of American Romanticism, edited by Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, and Jan Stievermann, 207–26. Handbooks of English and American Studies 14. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110592238-010.