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... in for a person s absence at any point. The written word carries more weight than the testifying person who writes it. So m uch so, that it may overshadow and efface its author completely. Already then, before we ve even begun, Poe introduces the major theme of Pym s outrageous narrative with what may be the most...

..., and Wish to Show It’: Charles Dickens and Fake News,” by William F. Long, and “Fake News!!! Poe’s Balloon Story and the Penny Papers!,” by Lydia G. Fash, remind us that hoaxes and their uncritical dissemination by news outlets are not solely twenty-first-century phenomena. Long’s article discusses...

...Audrey Jaffe Works Cited Brooks Peter . Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative . New York : New York Review of Books , 2022 . Fash Lydia G. “ Fake News!!! Poe’s Balloon Story and the Penny Papers! ” ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature...

... about the world. In the “Of Note” contributions in this issue, Audrey Jaffe and Mark Osteen comment on two articles that document notable instances of fake news in the nineteenth century. At the heart of Lydia G. Fash’s “Fake News!!! Poe’s Balloon Story and the Penny Papers!” is an 1844 hoax Edgar Allan...

... sensibility and his spasmodic sense of tone are developed through his translations of Edgar Allan Poe. Translation, pace Emily Dickinson, is the Art that wants to be haunted. Baudelaire’s translations of Poe began appearing after Poe’s death and continued after his own death, bolstering Poe’s posthumicity...

... lite ra ry w rite rs , in clu d ­ ing Em erson, Thoreau, and Poe.3 D raw ing to g eth e r Talbot's early w ritin g on pho to g ra p hy w ith Coleridge's conception o f polarity, I show th a t p h o to g ra p h y its lights and shadows, its positives and negatives crystallized a set o f ideas th a t w...

... re is n o t a p article o f art in the m o s t be a utifu l scene o f n a ture .T h e art is m an's alone, it is su b je ctive , n o t o b je c­ tive."7 T h is is dandy, fo r th e su b je ctive (male) gaze. Taking. Poe's "O val Portrait."You kill w h a t you portray. "And th e n th e brush w as g ive...

... to make even Venus herself vanish from the firm am ent by a scrutiny too sus­ tained, too concentrated, or too direct. -Edgar Allen Poe "The M urders in the Rue M o rg u e "1 . the valleys where we seek h e r . . . " One says nothing about a text.The critic addresses a fantasm conjured out o f read­ ings...

... UP, 2001. Pp. xii + 194. $9.95. 0-19-818778-5. Hayes, KevinJ. Poe and thePrinted Word. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2000. Pp. xvii + 145. he. $49.95. 0-521066276-1. Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge, 2002. Pp. vii + 307. he. $55.00/pb...

...), Peter: A n (A)Historical Romance (Starcherone), and a critical book, The Peculiarity o f Literature: A n A lle g o ric a l Approach to Poe's Fiction. He has edited tw o collections o f fictio n by A m erican w o m en , Chick-Lit I: P o stfem inist Fiction and Chick-Lit II: No Chick Vies (FC2...

... the Wanderer and Balzac s Peau de cha­ grin, Poe and H enry James, Disraeli and Bulwer-Lytton, Haw­ thorne and Stevenson, Walter Pater and J. A. Symonds, J.-K Huysmans and E. Heron-Alien including borrowings from a handbook of embroidery and the South Kensington Museum pamphlets on musical instruments...

... orrison s Playing in the Dark is not mentioned. Given his m ention of Edgar Allan Poe later (134), and Morrison s discussion of his work in equating death and blackness, not touching on it is offensive from a schol­ arly standpoint. The book begins with the Romantic period. He characterizes the Romantics...

... Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science o f M edicine: A Life o f John Snow (Oxford University Press) and the co-editor of The Am erican Face o f Edgar A llan Poe (Johns Hopkins University Press). He has recently w ritte n on Pearl S. Buck and the Nineteenthcentury Cantonese painter, Lam Qua. Eric R obertson...

... to transcendence which ground our claim s to be custodians of something called nature. Each of these writers, then, suggests that the tradition o f critique is exhausted and likewise gestures toward a supplemental practice of poe/s/s which, while not displacing critique completely, may prepare it and us fo r...

...). In a strange coincidence and an intersec­ tion of fact and fiction, the facts of Regina i/. D u d le y & S te p h e n s are virtually identical to a scene in Edgar A llan Poe's The N a rra tiv e o f A rth u r G o rd o n P ym (Oxford: Oxford U niversity Press, 1994). In Poe's v er­ sion, the narrator...

... in the play. 6 For m ore on Russian tyranny and E ngland s view o f Russians as slaves who glorified in their slavery, see Marshall T. Poe, A People Bom to Slavery : Russia in Early Modem European Ethnography, 1476-1748 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2000), 1-9, 145-67; Francesca Wilson, Muscovy: Russia Through...

... or, for lack of a better term, spir­ itual worth (115-116). The ways other Romantics on both sides of the Atlantic confronted this dilemma crop up. Poe s Sonnet, To Science and the aforem entioned Walden readily spring to mind. The Romantics were the first to experience what Max Weber labeled dieEntzauberung...

... into the Southern Hemisphere and the construction of Antarctica as the “last frontier” of imperialism. 33 As she dwells on this ocean, Costello recalls Edgar Allan Poe’s description of strange Antarctic natives with dark skin and black teeth. Elizabeth Leane accounts for Poe’s portrayal by noting...

... ; Poe and the Subversion o f Am er­ ican Literature; S patiality (The New Critical Idiom); Utopia in the A ge o f Globalization; Kurt Vonnegutand the American Novel; and Melville, M apping and Globalization. The translator of Bertrand W estphal's Geocriticism, Tally is the editor o f G eocritical...

..., Doc? and The Rabbit of Seville ? It is a blow to the collective ego of my past English teachers to adm it this, but I place one hundred percent of the blame on my entering into literary studies on Jay W ard s shoulders due to Edgar Allan Poe s appearance in an episode of Mr. Peabody s Improbable...