Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture Book

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction J. Gerald Kennedy 1

I Locating the Republic of Letters

Inventing the Literati: Poe's Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture J. Gerald Kennedy 13

"The Rage for Lions": Edgar Allan Poe and the Culture of Celebrity Leon Jackson 37

II Surveying the National Scene

Perverting the American Renaissance: Poe, Democracy, Critical Theory Betsy Erkkila 65

"To Reproduce a City": New York Letters and the Urban American Renaissance Scott Peeples 101

Poe's 1848: Eureka, the Southern Margin, and the Expanding U[niverse] of S[tars] Jennifer Rae Greeson 123

III Plotting Poe's Influence

Cruising (Perversely) for Context: Poe and Murder, Women and Apes Leland S. Person 143

Robert Greenhow, Poe, and the Nineteenth-Century History of Transnational American Studies Anna Brickhouse 170

Poe s Lyrical Media: The Ravens Returns Eliza Richards 200

IV Repositioning Poe in Literary America Poe by the Numbers: Odd Man Out? Maurice S. Lee 227

Poe, Decentered Culture, and Critical Method Jerome McGann 245

Contributors 261

Index 263