{"product_id":"american-terror-paul-hurh-9780804791144","title":"American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? \u003ci\u003eAmerican Terror\u003c\/i\u003e returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors--Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville--who not only wrote works of terror, but who defended, theorized, and championed it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining updated historical perspectives with close reading, Paul Hurh shows how these authors developed terror as a special literary affect informed by the way the concept of thinking becomes, in the wake of Enlightenment empiricism, increasingly defined by a set of austere mechanic processes, such as the scientific method and the algebraic functions of analytical logic. Rather than trying to find a feeling that would transcend thinking by subtending reason to emotion, these writers found in terror the feeling of thinking, the peculiar feeling of reason's authority over emotional schemes. In so doing, they grappled with a shared set of enduring questions: What is the difference between thinking and feeling? Why does it seem impossible to reason oneself out of an irrational fear? And what becomes of the freedom of the will when we discover that affects can push it around?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Hurh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804791147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804791144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2015","brand":"Paul Hurh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065152811263,"sku":"9780804791144","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1615cc7c-37ac-4b62-99ad-9f3aafc18c3e.jpg?v=1768673344","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-terror-paul-hurh-9780804791144","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}