Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

by Kennedy, J. Gerald; McGann, Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780807150269
• ISBN10: 0807150266
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-19
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

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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