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- Title
The Waterfall, the Whirlpool, and the Stage: "Boundaries of Americanness" in Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom".
- Authors
DONOHUE, MICAH K.
- Abstract
The article provides an overview of how Niagara function as literary topoi in American imaginaries in Edgar Allan Poe's "A Descent into the Maelström." The Maelstrom offers an early entry within the spiral imagery's archive used to conceptualize de-bordered modes of American writing. The Americanized Norwegian Maelstrom offers the vertiginous stage for the double play of Poe of an extra-national American literature which reproduces the historical expansionism of Manifest Destiny.
- Subjects
AMERICAN literature; POE, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; MANIFEST destiny (U.S.); GEOGRAPHIC boundaries; ARCHIVES
- Publication
Comparatist, 2017, Vol 41, p237
- ISSN
0195-7678
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/com.2017.0013