ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - The Yellow Wallpaper, Herman Melville, Dark Romanticism
2 Jan 2013
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Poe 1809-1840, son of teenage actors, inherited financial instability and marginalization. Poe"s parents died when he was 3, was taken in by adopting parents, named family allen . Poe ruined his university career by drinking and gambling, ruined his military career as well . Married his 13 year old cousin, moved to various places, always working as a journalists or w. e, but cannot hold down a job due to his drinking/gambling. Wife died as young women, two years prior to poe . The indeterminate boundary between waking and inwaking, natural/supernatural etc. etc the slippage between different states. Less interested in truth or real or reality, more interested in imagination, more understanding of the world by larger or wider perspective. Symbols important, a preoccupation to search for the absolute/ideal. Developed in reaction to the notion that humans and animals were inherently good . Developed fiction, more so than the european romanticism.
