Edgar Allan Poe and his nineteenth-century American counterparts / John Cullen Gruesser.
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TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019Description: 173 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501334528 (hardcover)
- 818.309 GRUÂ 23
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Includes index.
GBP 80/-
Introduction. Dreams and mystifications of Poe -- Poor Edgar's almanac : E. A. Poe's money woes -- Outside looking in : Poe and New York City -- Eddy P., the scrivener : biography and autobiography in Herman Melville's "Story of wall-street" -- Character rivalry, authorial sleight-of-hand, and generic fluidity in the Dupin trilogy -- Varieties of detection in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter, Walt Whitman's Life and adventures of Jack Engle, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, and Mark Twain's "The stolen white elephant" -- Madness, mystification, and "average racism" in "The gold-bug," E.D.E.N. Southworth's The hidden hand, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl, and Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's daughter -- Coda. "A crime of dark dye" : misreading Poe's criticism.
"Situates Poe within, and reads his texts in relation to, the economic, literary, and racial milieu of the antebellum United States"-- Provided by publisher.
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