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Edgar Allan Poe and the masses : the political economy of literature in antebellum America /

"Edgar Allan Poe has long been viewed as an artist who was hopelessly out of step with his time. But as Terence Whalen shows, America's most celebrated romantic outcast was in many ways the nation's most representative commercial writer. Whalen explores the antebellum literary environ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whalen, Terence, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Capitalism and Literature. Ch. 1. Introduction: Minor Writing and the Capital Reader. Ch. 2. The Horrid Laws of Political Economy. Ch. 3. Fables of Circulation: Poe's influence on the Messenger. Ch. 4. Poe and the Masses
  • pt. 2. Race and Region. Ch. 5. Average Racism: Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism. Ch. 6. Subtle Barbarians: The Southern Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe
  • pt. 3. Mass Culture. Ch. 7. The Code for Gold: Poe and Cryptography. Ch. 8. Culture of Surfaces. Ch. 9. The Investigating Angel: Poe, Babbage, and "The Power of Words."