Power Of Blackness : Hawthorne, Poe, Melville (Paperback)

from Midnightdreary

A very readable analysis of the darker side of the Romantic era, this book is a very broad overview of the work of Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville. The author touches upon most of each writers' works, major and minor, and links them all together in how they approach the negative side of human nature...

from Midnightdreary

A very readable analysis of the darker side of the Romantic era, this book is a very broad overview of the work of Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville. The author touches upon most of each writers' works, major and minor, and links them all together in how they approach the negative side of human nature...

from antao

(Original Review, 1981-02-01) Harry Levin wrote a book called "The Power of Blackness" about Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, the classic trio of Dark Romance, and there is no doubt Blackness and Night haunt the human imagination and generate oneiric phantasms to boot. In the French cultural scene a...

from Midnightdreary

A very readable analysis of the darker side of the Romantic era, this book is a very broad overview of the work of Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville. The author touches upon most of each writers' works, major and minor, and links them all together in how they approach the negative side of human nature...

from Midnightdreary

A very readable analysis of the darker side of the Romantic era, this book is a very broad overview of the work of Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville. The author touches upon most of each writers' works, major and minor, and links them all together in how they approach the negative side of human nature...