Gruesser, John Cullen,  1959- <br/><br/>
Edgar Allan Poe and his nineteenth-century American counterparts / 
John Cullen Gruesser. 
 - 173 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index.  GBP 80/- 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "Situates Poe within, and reads his texts in relation to, the economic, literary, and racial milieu of the antebellum United States"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501334528 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>818.309 GRU