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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Poe, Edgar Allan.

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

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.

Physical Description:

vii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012 .

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.

ISBN:

9780807150269 (cloth : alk. paper)

0807150266 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780807150276 (pdf)

0807150274 (pdf)

9780807150283 (epub)

0807150282 (epub)

9780807150290 (mobi)

0807150290 (mobi)

OCLC:

794838415

Publisher Number:

40021710567