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A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 49.99Contains an introduction that considers the tension between Poe's "otherworldly" settings and his historically marked representations of violence. This book covers topics such as Poe and the American Publishing Industry, Poe's Sensationalism, Poe's relationship to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy. more...
Modern American Short Story Sequences
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 26.00Originally published in 1995, this book explores American short story sequences as a twentieth-century genre. more...
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 18.00A fully revised collection of Poe?s work The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author?s familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture. more...
Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 14.00A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities between white settlers and Native Americans. Black Hawk,... more...
Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture
LSU Press 2012; US$ 28.50Edgar Allan Poe (1809?1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively?in fiction and nonfiction?on nationalism, science, materialism, popular taste, and cultural ideology. Opposing the pressure to write nationalistic ?American? tales or from... more...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Oxford University Press, UK 1994; US$ 8.99The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending... more...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 8.99And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'.The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes... more...
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