Poe and the remapping of antebellum print culture / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Jerome McGann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, J. Gerald.

McGann, Jerome J.

Project Muse.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Knowledge and learning--Book industries and trade--Congresses.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Book industries and trade.

Literature publishing--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

Literature publishing.

Publishers and publishing--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

Publishers and publishing.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

Literature and society.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 272 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / J. Gerald Kennedy

Locating the Republic of Letters. Inventing the Literati: Poe's Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture / J. Gerald Kennedy

"The Rage for Lions": Edgar Allan Poe and the Culture of Celebrity / Leon Jackson

Surveying the National Scene. Perverting the American Renaissance: Poe, Democracy, Critical Theory / Betsy Erkkil

"To Reproduce a City": New York Letters and the Urban American Renaissance / Scott Peeples

Poe's 1848: Eureka, the Southern Margin, and the Expanding U[niverse] of S[tars] / Jennifer Rae Greeson

Plotting Poe's Influence. Cruising (Perversely) for Context: Poe and Murder, Women and Apes / Leland S. Person

Robert Greenhow, Poe, and the Nineteenth-Century History of Transnational American Studies / Anna Brickhouse

Poe's Lyrical Media: The Raven's Returns / Eliza Richards

Repositioning Poe in Literary America. Poe by the Numbers: Odd Man Out? / Maurice S. Lee

Poe, Decentered Culture, and Critical Method / Jerome McGann.

Notes:

Papers presented at a literary conference on Edgar Allan Poe held at the University of Virginia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780807150276

0807150274

Publisher Number:

99967112954

40021710567

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.