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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

173 pages; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"Situates Poe within, and reads his texts in relation to, the economic, literary, and racial milieu of the antebellum United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501334528

1501334522

OCLC:

1031343220