Acknowledgments
Introduction
James M. Hutchisson
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Poe’s “Philosophy of Furniture” and the Aesthetics of Fictional Design C. T. Walters
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Race, Pirates, and Intellect: A Reading of Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” John F. Jebb
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Storytelling, Narrative Authority, and Death in “The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade” James M. Hutchisson
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The Man in the Text: Desire, Masculinity, and the Development of Poe’s Detective Fiction Peter Goodwin
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Gothic Displacements: Poe’s South in Politian Amy C. Branam
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Poe in the Ragged Mountains: Environmental History and Romantic Aesthetics Daniel J. Philippon
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“King Pest” and the Tales of the Folio Club Benjamin F. Fisher
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Understanding “Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling” Kevin J. Hayes
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“Eyes Which Behold”: Poe’s “Domain of Arnheim” and the Science of Vision Laura Saltz
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“A Species of Literature Almost Beneath Contempt”: Edgar Allan Poe and the World of Literary Competitions Leon Jackson
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Poe’s Early Criticism of American Fiction: The Southern Literary Messenger and the Fiction of Robert Montgomery Bird Justin R. Wert
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Mad Ravings or Sound Thinking?: “The Philosophy of Composition” and Poe’s Parodic Raven Dennis W. Eddings
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