Shared waters soundings in postcolonial literatures /

Table of Contents: “…Finding Nemo : puzzling Maltese identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" /…”
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Classic short stories

Table of Contents: “…Heidegger's experiment (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 5. William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe) 6. The masque of the red death (Edgar Allan Poe) 7. …”
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Classic short stories

Table of Contents: “…Heidegger's experiment (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 5. William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe) 6. The masque of the red death (Edgar Allan Poe) 7. …”
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Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…From Bradstreet to Poe -- The colonial body travels East in Anne Bradstreet's poetry -- How West becomes East in colonial Georgia poetry -- Humanity's eastern home in Benjamin Franklin's Oriental tales -- Edgar Allan Poe's Oriental America -- Epilogue.…”
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Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…From Bradstreet to Poe -- The colonial body travels East in Anne Bradstreet's poetry -- How West becomes East in colonial Georgia poetry -- Humanity's eastern home in Benjamin Franklin's Oriental tales -- Edgar Allan Poe's Oriental America -- Epilogue.…”
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Bestial traces race, sexuality, animality / by Peterson, Christopher, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Aping apes: Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" and Richard Wright's Native son -- Slavery's bestiary: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus tales -- Autoimmunity and ante-racism: Philip Roth's The human stain -- Ashamed of shame: J.M. …”
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Bestial traces race, sexuality, animality / by Peterson, Christopher, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Aping apes: Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" and Richard Wright's Native son -- Slavery's bestiary: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus tales -- Autoimmunity and ante-racism: Philip Roth's The human stain -- Ashamed of shame: J.M. …”
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Textual conspiracies Walter Benjamin, idolatry, and political theory / by Martel, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Walter Benjamin's conspiracy with language -- Kafka : the messiah who does nothing at all -- Machiavelli's conspiracy of open secrets -- Rendering the world into signs : Alexis de Tocqueville and Edgar Allan Poe -- Hannah Arendt, Federico Garcia lorca, and the place for the human -- Reconstructing the world : Frantz Fanon and Assia Djebar -- Conclusion : a faithless leap.…”
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Textual conspiracies Walter Benjamin, idolatry, and political theory / by Martel, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Walter Benjamin's conspiracy with language -- Kafka : the messiah who does nothing at all -- Machiavelli's conspiracy of open secrets -- Rendering the world into signs : Alexis de Tocqueville and Edgar Allan Poe -- Hannah Arendt, Federico Garcia lorca, and the place for the human -- Reconstructing the world : Frantz Fanon and Assia Djebar -- Conclusion : a faithless leap.…”
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Theaters of madness insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / by Reiss, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sanative culture -- Brothers and sisters of asylumia: literary life in the New York State Lunatic Asylum -- Saneface minstrelsy: blacking up in the asylum -- Bardolatry in Bedlam: Shakespeare and early psychiatry -- Emerson's close encounters with madness -- What's the point of a revolution?: Edgar Allan Poe and the origins of the asylum -- Out of the attic: gender, captivity, and asylum exposés.…”
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Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / by Willis, Martin, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Hoffmann and the magic of mesmerism -- Mary Shelley's electric imagination -- The human experiments of Edgar Allan Poe -- Verne's deep-sea investigations on dry land -- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's invention of psychical research -- H.G. …”
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Theaters of madness insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / by Reiss, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sanative culture -- Brothers and sisters of asylumia: literary life in the New York State Lunatic Asylum -- Saneface minstrelsy: blacking up in the asylum -- Bardolatry in Bedlam: Shakespeare and early psychiatry -- Emerson's close encounters with madness -- What's the point of a revolution?: Edgar Allan Poe and the origins of the asylum -- Out of the attic: gender, captivity, and asylum exposés.…”
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Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / by Willis, Martin, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Hoffmann and the magic of mesmerism -- Mary Shelley's electric imagination -- The human experiments of Edgar Allan Poe -- Verne's deep-sea investigations on dry land -- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's invention of psychical research -- H.G. …”
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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

Table of Contents: “…"We have seen strange things to day" : the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables -- "A wilderness of error" : Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes -- Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother" : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather -- "The story was in the gaps" : Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton.…”
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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

Table of Contents: “…"We have seen strange things to day" : the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables -- "A wilderness of error" : Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes -- Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother" : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather -- "The story was in the gaps" : Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton.…”
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Poe and the remapping of antebellum print culture

Table of Contents: “…Gerald Kennedy -- "The Rage for Lions": Edgar Allan Poe and the Culture of Celebrity / Leon Jackson -- Surveying the National Scene. …”
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Poe and the remapping of antebellum print culture

Table of Contents: “…Gerald Kennedy -- "The Rage for Lions": Edgar Allan Poe and the Culture of Celebrity / Leon Jackson -- Surveying the National Scene. …”
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Race, gender and empire in American detective fiction by Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

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Race, gender and empire in American detective fiction by Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

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Poe, Fuller, and the mesmeric arts transition states in the American Renaissance / by Mills, Bruce, 1958-

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