Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Locating the Republic of Letters | |
Inventing the Literati: Poe's Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture | p. 13 |
"The Rage for Lions": Edgar Allan Poe and the Culture of Celebrity | p. 37 |
Surveying the National Scene | |
Perverting the American Renaissance: Poe, Democracy, Critical Theory | p. 65 |
"To Reproduce a City": New York Letters and the Urban American Renaissance | p. 101 |
Poe's 1848: Eureka, the Southern Margin, and the Expanding U[niverse] of S[tars] | p. 123 |
Plotting Poe's Influence | |
Cruising (Perversely) for Context: Poe and Murder, Women and Apes | p. 143 |
Robert Greenhow, Poe, and the Nineteenth-Century History of Transnational American Studies | p. 170 |
Poe s Lyrical Media: The Ravens Returns | p. 200 |
Repositioning Poe in Literary America Poe by the Numbers: Odd Man Out? | p. 227 |
Poe, Decentered Culture, and Critical Method | p. 245 |
Contributors | p. 261 |
Index | p. 263 |
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