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Title The American face of Edgar Allan Poe / edited by Shawn Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman.

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  818.3 P752Dam    ---  Available
Description xx, 364 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-361).
Contents Beyond "The problem of Poe" / Shawn Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman -- Being odd, getting even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) / Stanley Cavell -- Strange fits : Poe and Wordsworth on the nature of poetic language / Barbara Johnson -- "Es lasst sich nicht schreiben" : plagiarism and "The man of the crowd" / Stephen Rachman -- Terminate or liquidate? Poe, sensationalism, and the sentimental tradition / Jonathan Elmer -- Revivification and Utopian time : Poe versus Stowe / Eva Cherniavsky -- A clew to a clue : locked rooms and labyrinths in Poe and Borges / John T. Irwin -- Detective fiction, psychoanalysis, and the analytic sublime / Shawn Rosenheim -- Amorous bondage : Poe, ladies, and slaves / Joan Dayan -- Poe and gentry Virginia / David Leverenz -- "(Horrible to relate!)" : recovering the body of Marie Rogêt / Laura Saltz -- Poe, literary nationalism, and authorial identity / Meredith L. McGill -- "Ut pictura Poe" : poetic politics in "The island of the Fay" and "Morning on the Wissahiccon" / Louis A. Renza -- The poetics of extinction / Gillian Brown.
Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Comparative literature -- American and foreign.
Comparative literature -- Foreign and American.
Added Author Rosenheim, Shawn.
Rachman, Stephen.
ISBN 0801850258 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
080185024X (cloth : acid-free paper)

 
    
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