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Title Romancing the shadow : Poe and race / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy & Liliane Weissberg.

Imprint Oxford, [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2001.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  818.3 P752Dro 2001    ---  Available
Description xviii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-275) and index.
Contents Average racism : Poe, slavery, and the wages of literary nationalism / Terence Whalen -- 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 -- "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.
Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Political and social views.
Race in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Views on race.
African Americans in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Added Author Kennedy, J. Gerald.
Weissberg, Liliane.
ISBN 0195137116 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195137108 (alk. paper)

 
    
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