Eureka: A Prose Piece on Race and the Canon of Edgar Allan Poe
49 Pages Posted: 1 Feb 2016
Date Written: March 12, 2012
Abstract
Edgar Allan Poe anticipates the expanding and contracting universe in "Eureka" and the "physics" of the metaphysical universe he creates in Eureka explicitly play a dominant and consistent role in Poe's racial concepts of literary whiteness and blackness in his short gothic tales.
Keywords: edgar allan poe, poe, american literature, race, playing in the dark, eureka, the fall house of usher, the black cat, william wilson, racial, literary whiteness, literary blackness, american criticism
JEL Classification: P30, P3
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Durden, Spencer, Eureka: A Prose Piece on Race and the Canon of Edgar Allan Poe (March 12, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2725498 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2725498
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