“For the Bright Side of the Painting I had a Limited Sympathy”: Emancipation and Counter-Emancipation in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

The article focuses on the contradictory construction of a free and self-reliant (and “imperialist”) white male identity in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Poe’s romance builds up the myth of sea travelling as a way to reach an individual emancipation from the constraints (but...

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Main Author: Valerio Massimo De Angelis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2017-06-01
Series:Iperstoria
Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/243