Perverse Feelings: Poe and American Masculinity

by Suzanne Ashworth and Suzanne Ashworth

Book Overview

Perverse Feelings: Poe and American Masculinity examines white masculinity in Poe's fiction and the culture it represents. Poe's men are tormented by chronic illness, deviant attachments, and ugly emotions. As it analyzes these afflictions, this book illuminates the pathologies of American masculinity that emerged in a terrible history of imperialism, capitalism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia. One of its central contentions is that we can better...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793626545
• ISBN13: 9781793626547
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"