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April 15, 2020

The Power of Greenness. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and American Environmentalist Discourse

The call is addressed mainly, but not exclusively, to scholars investigating the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, who might be interested in contributing to the volume The Power of Greenness: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and American Environmentalist Discourse. The title of the planned collection of essays is an allusion to the classic 1955 study by Harry Levine The Power of Blackness. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville. As the “greenness” in the title suggests, the volume proposes to reexamine the fiction of ...