TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gruesser,John Cullen
TI  - Edgar Allan Poe and his nineteenth-century American counterparts
SN  - 9781501334528 (hardcover)
U1  - 818.309 GRU 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Poe, Edgar Allan,
KW  - American literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
N2  - "Situates Poe within, and reads his texts in relation to, the economic, literary, and racial milieu of the antebellum United States"--
ER  -