... 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...

...Siân Silyn Roberts Paul Hurh , American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2015 ), pp. 312 , paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 As Paul Hurh points out early in American Terror , a peculiar...

... 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...

...). Arguably no more prescient example of a restless and compulsive somatology of the metropolitan indigene exists than Edgar Allan Poe’s nineteenth-century shabby itinerant of “The Man of the Crowd” (1840) who inexplicably craves move- ment and thrives on streets crowded with pedestrians. Poe’s tale also...

... 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...

...: Verso, 1987 . 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...

... 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...

... in which the form becomes visible as form when 20 NOVEL SPRING 2014 it is reversed.5 This is something Poe under- stood as well...

... 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...

... 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 insists—we often do not know what to do with the nineteenth-century British tradition of “short fiction...

... 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, and George Eliot...

... , 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...

... 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...

... ). 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...

... : Gallimard , 2008 . Frank Lawrence . Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2003 . Harris Susan Cannon . “ Pathological Possibilities: Contagion and Empire in Doyle’s Sherlock...