Anti-transcendentalism and dark romanticism in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"

Authors

  • Sofia Lopes Universidade de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/entr.2019.131.08

Keywords:

Edgar Allan Poe, Death, Dark romanticism, Romanticism, Anti-transcendentalism

Abstract

This review seeks to analyse the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, and to study its connection to the anti-transcendentalist and dark romantic movements. Through an examination of the literary aspects contained in the story, this work aims to inspect Poe's writing style, notedly marked by a bold approach of the themes of death, mourning and decay, and to compare his aesthetic decisions - such as the strong symbolic streak, the reliance on colour and architecture and the artistic depiction of death - to the chief tenets that influenced anti-transcendentalist writers over the 19th century.

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Published

2021-05-19

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019): Janeiro/Junho 2019

Section

Book review

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