Philadelphia Stories : America's Literature of Race and Freedom. by Otter, Samuel

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Arguing with numbers : the intersections of rhetoric and mathematics / edited by James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes.

Table of Contents: “…Mitchell Reyes -- The Ourang-Outang in the Rue Morgue : Charles Peirce, Edgar Allan Poe, and the rhetoric of diagrams in detective fiction / Andrew C. …”
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Literary culture and U.S. imperialism : from the Revolution to World War II / John Carlos Rowe. by Rowe, John Carlos

Table of Contents: “…Literary culture and U.S. imperialism -- The dream of enlightenment and the nightmare of imperialism: Charles Brockden Brown;s Wieland and Edgar Huntly -- Edgar Allan Poe's imperial fantasy and the American frontier -- Melville's Typee: U.S. imperialism at home and abroad -- Highway robbery: "Indian removal," the Mexican American War, and the American identity in John Rollin Ridge's (Yellow Bird) The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta -- Mark Twain's rediscovery of America in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Race, gender, and imperialism in Stephen Crane: A Monstrous Case -- The Education of Henry Adams and the American empire -- W.E.B. …”
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The American stage : writing on theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner / Laurence Senelick, editor ; [foreword by John Lithgow].

Table of Contents: “…Washington Irving -- Charles Sprague -- William Dunlap -- Frances Trollope -- Alexis de Tocqueville -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Walt Whitman -- Philip Hone -- Anna Cora Mowatt -- Mark Twain -- Charles King Newcomb -- Olive Logan -- Edward P. …”

Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television / Jan Whitt. by Whitt, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Shutter Island: Martin Scorsese's allegory of despair -- When fiction becomes reality: Authorial voice in the door in the floor, secret window, and swimming pool -- The "very simplicity of the thing": Edgar Allan Poe, Jessica B. Fletcher, and Murder, she wrote -- Changing faces: Dr. …”

The serpent of Venice / Christopher Moore. by Moore, Christopher, 1957-

The Signet classic book of Southern short stories / edited and with an introduction by Dorothy Abbott and Susan Koppelman.

Table of Contents: “…Confessions of a murderer / William Gilmore Simms -- The dance / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- A tale of the ragged mountains / Edgar Allan Poe -- A marriage of persuasion / Susan Petrigru King -- Jean-ah Poquelin / George Washington Cable -- Felipa / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- The sheriff's children / Charles W. …”

Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / Peter Coviello. by Coviello, Peter

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Keats, Poe, and the Shaping of Cortazar's Mythopoesis. by Hernandez Del Castillo, Ana

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George Garrett : a critical biography / Casey Clabough. by Clabough, Casey, 1974-

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Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol. by Frank, Adam

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Under the influence : the literature of addiction / edited by Rebecca Shannonhouse ; foreword by Pete Hamill.

The making of the American essay / edited and introduced by John D'Agata.

40 short stories : a portable anthology / edited by Beverly Lawn.

Table of Contents: “…Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Araby / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcâia Mâarquez -- A & P / John Updike -- Inbound / Edith Pearlman -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been? …”

American short stories : 1820 to the present / [edited by] Eugene Current-García [and] Walton R. Patrick.

Table of Contents: “…Rip Van Winkle ; The stout gentleman / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown ; Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cask of Amontillado ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bart Davis's dance / George Washington Harris -- Bartleby / Herman Melville -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County ; Baker's blue-jay yarn / Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- Editha / William Dean Howells -- The coup de grace / Ambrose Bierce -- Europe ; The jolly corner / Henry James -- Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler Harris -- The Dulham ladies / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin -- A New England nun / Mary E. …”

The Transit of Venus by Firer, Susan

Table of Contents: “…#XIV; Three: Conjugating Space; Brother Michelangelo; Four: Breaking and Entering; Reading My Ántonia; A Rock Named Edgar Allan Poe; Money Is the Thing with Feathers; Checklist; Swabians; Flyby Ice Age; The Happiness Tourist; I Have Always Measured in Poems; Some of Us Are Not Born; Grapefruit; Sentences I Never Thought I Would Say…”
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The Crime Fiction Handbook. by Messent, Peter

Table of Contents: “…THE CRIME FICTION HANDBOOK -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory Note -- Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: The Politics, Main Forms, and Key Concerns of Crime Fiction -- The Politics of Crime Fiction -- The Types of Crime Fiction -- Classical Detective Fiction -- Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction -- The Police Novel -- Transgressor Narratives -- Vision, Supervision, and the City -- Crime and the Body -- Gender Matters -- Representations of Race -- Part 3: Some KeyWorks in Crime Fiction -- Edgar Allan Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) -- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four (1890)…”
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American terror : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville / Paul Hurh by Hurh, Paul

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Poe and the Printed Word. by Hayes, Kevin J.

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Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen / edited by R. Barton Palmer.

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer -- A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin -- Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne -- The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf -- Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton -- Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons -- Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery -- Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. …”
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