... Allan Poe and participate in recent critical approaches to the father of detective fiction that read him in the context of the racial discourse of his day, and (2) critique the hierarchical thinking that both banishes comics to the realm of the “subliterary” and sustains racist ideology. In this sense...

... in Pierre , we find incest occupying an important threshold between significance and sound, between meaning and unmeaning. The first part of the essay reveals that Melville borrows from Poe a gothic “sound” that emphasizes the physical nature of language. The second part of the essay explores the history...

... : U of Pennsylvania P , 2003 . Murison Justine . The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2011 . Poe Edgar Allan . “ The Fall of the House of Usher .” The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe . Ed. Thompson G. R...

... on the defining examples laid out in two initial chapters, one on Little Dorrit and a second on Poe. Dickens confirms Stewart’s thesis that “friction” at the level of the sentence (29, 194) will track the novel’s project of ethical containment, revealing at the micro level the distortion necessary...

...Stuart Burrows Weinstein Cindy , Time, Tense, and American Literature: When Is Now? ( New York : Cambridge UP , 2015 ), pp. 194, cloth, $89.99 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 What would the history of American literature look like if Edgar Allan Poe's...

.... America is also the story of written texts: collected letters, verses, stories, sermons, nar- ratives, autobiographies, romances, pamphlets, and novels penned by men named Mather, Edwards, Frankiin, Jefferson, Cooper, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, and others who, according to the colonialists...

..., Goldman Jane, and Taxidou Olga. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999 . 249 -53. Poe , Edgar Allan . “The Man of the Crowd.” Edgar Allan Poe . Ed. Philip Van Doren Stern. New York: Viking, 1945 . 107 -18. Simmel , Georg . “The Metropolis and Mental Life.” The Sociology of Georg Simmel . Ed...

... 3 June 2007 : 1 , 12 -13. ———. Motherless Brooklyn . New York: Vintage, 2000 . Osborn , Ian . Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder . New York: Pantheon, 1998 . Poe , Edgar Allan . “The Imp of the Perverse.” 1845...

... . Morrison , Toni . Jazz . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 . Poe , Edgar Allan . The Complete Tales and Poems . Ed. Hervey Allen. New York: Modern Library, 1938 . Rushdie , Salman . Shame . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 . Toer , Pramoedya Ananta . The Buru Quartet...

... experience. What literature could do and what literature even was were questions these stories confronted and finally left unresolvable. Toward the end of his 1847 review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse , Edgar Allan Poe opines, at length, about length...

... Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, and James Fenimore Cooper are cast as “thought experiments on the new democratic reality” (20). The phrase “thought experiments” may be familiar to readers of Margolis's first book, The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth...

... . The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994 . Paine , Thomas . The Rights of Man . 1791. New York: Doubleday, 1973 . Poe , Edgar Allan . “The Philosophy of Composition.” 1846. The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe . Philadelphia: Running...

... of the strands running throughout this book turns on the notion of "internal colo- nization," the way in which various groups within the US were subjugated according to the "hierarchies of race, class, and gender" (7). Yet, in a subtle and compelling reading of Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Journal...

... of Representative Government . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1997 . Plato Laws . Vol. 5 of The Dialogues of Plato . Trans. Jowett Benjamin . Oxford : Clarendon , 1892 . Poe Edgar Allan . The Selected Poetry and Prose of Edgar Allan Poe . Ed. Mabbott T. O. . New York : Modern...

... of Pennsylvania Hall (which the city’s elite leaders and street gangs equally suspected of racial mixing and political dissent); Lippard’s attempt in The Quaker City to debunk bourgeois manners by developing an “urban aesthetics” of the “grotesque sublime” (169); and Edgar Allan Poe’s explorations...

... by the long, serialized novel, only to reemerge at the fin de siècle. Because we have been so focused on Edgar Allen Poe's criteria for the successful short story—“compression, psychological penetration, and above all singleness of effect have been at the heart of every generic taxonomy since Poe,” Plotz...

...,” like Charles Lamb, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas De Quincey, and Henry David Thoreau (37). Here as elsewhere, Lee interrupts his discussion with a list, like an interpellated anthology in the discourse of close reading (compare the numbered vignettes of Poe, Benjamin Disraeli, Herman Melville, Wilkie Collins...

... University. He is the author of Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe (1995) and On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World (2008).  G. ­GABRIELLE STARR is professor of English and Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science at New York...

... , Francesco . “Forms of the Supernatural in Narrative.” Trans. Simone Marchesi and Daniel Seidel. The Novel . Ed. Franco Moretti. Vol. 2 . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006 . 207 -43. Parsons , Coleman O . “The Bodach Glas in Waverley.” Notes and Queries 184 ( 1943 ): 95 -97. Poe , Edgar...

... ). Miller D. A. The Novel and the Police . Berkeley : U of California P , 1988 . Moretti Franco . Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms . Trans. Fischer Susan Forgacs David Miller David . Rev. Ed. London : Verso , 1988 . Poe Edgar...