Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

by J. Gerald Kennedy

Edgar 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 a restricted New England perspective, he produced a body of work held in greater international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807150266
• ISBN13: 9780807150269
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"