Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe [electronic resource] : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition / William E. Engel.

Introduction: stylistic choices and intellectual armature
Melville's melancholy landscapes. Salvator R.Tarnmoor's mnemonic itinerary; Allegories of decay and the decay of allegory; Mime and masquerade in the theatrum mundi
Poe's mirrored memory palaces. The William Wilson effect; Magical architecture and chiastic echoes; Emblems of mournful and never-ending remembrance
Conclusion : reclaiming irredeemable loss
Appendix ("The raven").