Edgar Allan Poe and his nineteenth-century American counterparts / John Cullen Gruesser.

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.