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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 454–456.
Published: 01 June 2003
... University 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 212 of 246 Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy. By Louis A. Renza. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xix, 277 pp. $44.95...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 414–416.
Published: 01 June 2005
... University 414 American Literature Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes. By Stanley Cavell. Ed. David Justin Hodge. Stan- ford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 277 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $21.95. The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe. By Scott Peeples. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House. 2004. xii, 199...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2017
... activist William Apess, and Margaret Fuller’s writings from her time abroad among the Italian republicans. Kennedy’s most important accomplishment here might be his convincing and consistent positioning of Edgar Allan Poe as a vital interlocutor and investigator of this period of strange nationalism...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Adam Frank American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville . By Paul Hurh . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2015 . xi, 298 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. The Official World . By Mark Seltzer . Durham, NC : Duke Univ...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Maurice S. Lee Edgar Allan Poe's texts famously set reason against irrationality, usually formulated in terms of gothic horror, linguistic indeterminacy, psychosexual anxiety, racial fear, or some combination thereof. The disruptive power of chance is less noticed but nonetheless crucial to Poe's...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 830–832.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Hugh Egan Duke University Press 2007 Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle . By Eliza Richards. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 238 pp. $75.00. Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance . By Bruce Mills...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the same logic under another name. Extended readings of Henry David Thoreau (“Walking”), Edgar Allan Poe (“The Island of the Fay,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Colloquy of Monos and Una”) and recent posthumanist discourse illuminate these points. Unlike his transcendentalist contemporaries and many current...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 June 2000
... Maletic, Duke University Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 5, Writings in ‘‘The Southern Liter- ary MessengerNonfictional Prose . Ed. Burton R. Pollin and Joseph V. Ridgely. New York: Gordian Press...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 869–870.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... Bryce Traister, University of Western Ontario Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebel- lum America. By Terence Whalen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 418.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Edwin J. Barton By John Evangelist Walsh. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. xii, 199 pp. Paper,$14.95. 2001 418 American Literature Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. By John Evangelist...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 636–637.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Brown, Cooper, Poe, and Frederick Douglass, the ample evidence, plus wide and careful reading, makes the study compelling. The last two chapters comprise an intriguing reading of Pym and an always difficult reassessment of the well-known work of an iconic figure. However, Gardner’s evidence documents...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 143–145.
Published: 01 March 2002
... with a more general interest in antebel- lum American literature, or in oratory as a cultural practice, will want to look elsewhere. James M. Albrecht, Pacific Lutheran University The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: Alchemical Regeneration in the Works of Tay- lor, Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller. By Randall...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 751–781.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Maurice S. Lee Duke University Press 2003 Maurice S. Absolute Poe: His System of Lee Transcendental Racism 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 63 of 255 A haunting image appears on the cover of the 1995...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 259–289.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Clayton Marsh Duke University Press 2005 Clayton Stealing Time: Poe’s Confidence Men Marsh and the ‘‘Rush of the Age’’ On 8 July 1849, the New York Herald reported the arrest of a petty watch thief, alias William Thompson, who called himself...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Stefan Andriopoulos Abstract How was it possible that numerous nineteenth-century readers believed in the authenticity of a made-up sensational story about a mesmerist experiment that supposedly arrested its subject between life and death? By juxtaposing Edgar Allan Poe’s “Facts in the Case of M...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 870–872.
Published: 01 December 2000
...—a position that de- termines and overdetermines the racial logic of Poe’s fiction, as well as infuses his literature with the ‘‘material necessities of literary production Whalen insists that literary...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 201–208.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Dayan’s work on Edgar Allan Poe, De Prospo suggests that “maybe the time has come when Poe can be reclassified . . . as an early American writer who has been misread . . . as a modern one.” John Pendleton Kennedy: Early American Novelist, Whig Statesman, and Ardent Nationalist . By Andrew R. Black...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 868–869.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebel- lum America. By Terence Whalen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 328 pp. $55.00. With painstaking historical acuity...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 607–614.
Published: 01 September 2013
... the lens of early American notions of settlement, warfare, the Atlan- tic, enactment, and revolution. Collectively they ask, “What, then, is the Amer- ican, this new man?” Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture. Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Jerome McGann. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 160–162.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City . By Scott Peeples. With photographs by Michelle Van Parys. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. 2020. 200 pp. Cloth, $24.95; e-book available. Constantly on the move throughout his...