An Effect Altogether Unanticipated| Visual Art and the Importance of Effect in Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

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<p> By exploring how Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne each write about art, I articulate a little-discussed aesthetic tradition centered around the aesthetic of effect. This tradition works to connect romantic ideas about the author with sentimental emphasis on the need for affective art.</p>

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American literature

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:1592998
Date	27 August 2015
Creators	Ford, Dylan
Publisher	Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Source Sets	ProQuest.com
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	thesis