As a critic, he quickly gained the nick-name of “the man with the tomahawk,” a racist epithet but one which was meant to make light of his cutting negative critiques, for which his reviews became popular for giving. She can be found on Twitter Allan Poe is remembered as an eccentric loner, a poet, and a writer of gothic “tales.” He earned his living (albeit a meagre one) as a journalist, writing more literary criticism than poems or tales. She is based in the United States where she is also a volunteer docent for The Wren’s Nest, the home of Atlanta author Joel Chandler Harris most famous for his ‘Br’er Rabbit’ tales. The American authors examined in her thesis are William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers.
Her thesis is titled “The Diaspora of Dickens: Death, Decay and Regeneration”, the focus of which is the intertextuality of Dickens’s works and 20th century American texts of the Southern Gothic genre. Katie Bell is a PhD student at the University of Leicester.
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