From Physic to Psychic. The Treatment of Sensationalism in Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne


Bachelor Thesis, 2013

36 Pages, Grade: 2.0


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Contents

1. Introduction

2. Sensationalism in Britain and Antebellum America
2.1. A Brief History of Sensationalism
2.2. Definition and Key Features
2.2.1. Journalism
2.2.2. Fiction
2.3. Criticism and Defence

3. Elitist Sensationalism a laBlackwood’s
3.1.Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
3.2. TheBlackwood’sSensation Tale

4. Edgar Allan Poe’s Sensationalism
4.1. Poe and Parody
4.2.Blackwood’sParodies in Psyche Zenobia’s tales
4.3. Exploitation of the Genre in “The Premature Burial”

5. Hawthorne’s Allegoric Sensationalism
5.1. Hawthorne and Sensationalism
5.2. Treatment and Transformation of Sensational Themes
5.2.1. Psychological Sensationalism in “Wakefield”
5.2.2. Sensational Material in “Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent”

6. Conclusion

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Title
From Physic to Psychic. The Treatment of Sensationalism in Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
College
Ruhr-University of Bochum
Course
Sensationalism in Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grade
2.0
Author
Year
2013
Pages
36
Catalog Number
V266364
ISBN (eBook)
9783656560555
ISBN (Book)
9783656560579
File size
522 KB
Language
English
Keywords
from, physic, psychic, treatment, sensationalism, short, stories, edgar, allan, nathaniel, hawthorne
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Janina Wedig (Author), 2013, From Physic to Psychic. The Treatment of Sensationalism in Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/266364

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