دانلود کتاب Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Dreams and Mystifications of Poe
Part One: The Quixotic Quest for Literary Fame, Financial Stability, and a Republic of Letters in Antebellum America
Chapter 1: Poor Edgar’s Almanac: E. A. Poe’s Money Woes
Chapter 2: Outside Looking In: Poe and New York City
Looking in on Gotham
Letting Some Secrets of the New York Literati Out
Inside and Out: Revenge in “The Cask of Amontillado”
Chapter 3: Eddy P., the Scrivener: Biography and Autobiography in Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall-Street”1
Part Two: The Competition in Cunning: Ramifications of and Responses to Poe’s Ratiocinative Tales
Chapter 4: Character Rivalry, Authorial Sleight of Hand, and Generic Fluidity in the Dupin Trilogy
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
The Purloined Letter
Chapter 5: Varieties of Detection in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Walt Whitman’s Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno, and Mark Twain’s “The Stolen White Elephant”
Roger Chillingworth: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Malevolent, Deluded Detective
Successfully Combating Crime in Walt Whitman’s Jack Engle
Amasa Delano: Herman Melville’s Anti-Dupin
Mark Twain’s Purloined Critter
Chapter 6: Madness, Mystification, and “Average Racism” in “The Gold-Bug,” E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter
Uniting a Divided Country by Means of “Average Racism” in “The Gold-Bug” and The Hidden Hand
Hiding in Plain Sight and Reversing the Rendering of Black and White Speech in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Countering the Unexpiated National Sin of “Average Racism” in Hagar’s Daughter
Coda: “A Crime of Dark Dye”: Misreading Poe’s Criticism
Notes
Introduction: Dreams and Mystifications of Poe
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Coda: “A Crime of Dark Dye”: Misreading Poe’s Criticism
Index