by
Jerome McGann, Scott Peeples, Jennifer Rae Greeson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
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...