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T1 The discourse of ageing in Edgar Allan Poe: 'So terribly altered, in so brief a period'
A1 Miquel Baldellou, Marta
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB Case of M. Valdemar.” Poe’s concern with his own process of ageing as an individual sheds light on the discourse of ageing in nineteenth-century America, highlighting the contradictory conceptualisations held in relation to the elderly as indicative of the Puritan beliefs that praised the aged for being closer to God, as well as the Transcendentalist cult of youth that began to originate at the time. Moreover, envisioning ageing as a main focus of attention in Poe’s tales also paves the ground for reinterpreting Poe’s classic and canonical texts from a new perspective, exploring Poe’s concern about his own process of ageing through the analysis of the letters, daguerreotypes, personal papers, and especially, tales pertaining to the last years of his life.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17244
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17244
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2012, N.33, pags.215-234
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-abr-2024