| Description |
xviii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index. |
| Contents |
Average racism: Poe, slavery, and the wages of literary nationalism / Terence Whalen -- The poetics of whiteness: Poe and the racial imaginary / Betsy Erkkila -- Edgar Allan Poe's imperial fantasy and the American frontier / John Carlos Rowe -- Poe, persons, and property / Joan Dayan -- Black, white, and gold / Liliane Weissberg -- Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Lindon Barrett -- "The murders in the Rue Morgue": amalgamation discourses and the race riots of 1838 in Poe's Philadelphia / Elise Lemire -- Poe's philosophy of amalgamation: reading racism in the tales / Leland S. Person -- "Trust no man": Poe, Douglass, and the culture of slavery / J. Gerald Kennedy. |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Political and social views.
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Race in literature.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
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Slavery in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Race.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Kennedy, J. Gerald.
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Weissberg, Liliane.
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| ISBN |
0195137108 alkaline paper |
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0195137116 paperback alkaline paper |
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