Catherine Toal: 1 book
The Entrapments of Form
Cruelty and Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Arguing that cruelty acquires a new meaning in modernity, The Entrapments of Form follows its evolution through exchanges between French and American literature over the contradictions of Enlightenment (slavery, genocide, libertine aristocratic privilege). Catherine Toal traces Edgar Allan Poe’s...
