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A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology

The Deaf, The Battle with the Slum, Degeneracy, The Leaven in a Great City, Boyville, etc.

by Harry Best, Jacob A. Riis, W. T. Stead, Eugene S. Talbot, Lillian William Betts, John E. Gunckel, Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke, Guy Thorne, Bernard Mandeville, Samuel Merwin, Arthur Lawrence Hayward, James Harold Romain, Clifton R. Wooldridge, William Booth, L. O. Curon, Mary Higgs, George M. White, Sigmund Engel, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, John Josiah Munro, Caroline H. Woods, Nels Anderson, Charles Kingston, Josiah Flynt, Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg, V. M. Masten, Hans Kurella, R. M. Algie, A-No. 1, Louis Albert Banks, Samuel Paynter Wilson, W. A. Chapple, Roland Burnham Molineux, Carlo de Fornaro, John Thomas Smith, Roy K. Anderson, Jacobus X, Wellington Scott ...

Delve into the profound and multifaceted world of societal imperfections with 'A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology.' This anthology presents a panoramic exploration of social issues, ranging from urban poverty and criminality to behavioral psychology and societal reform. The collection encompasses a variety of literary styles, including investigative narratives, ... Read more

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Delve into the profound and multifaceted world of societal imperfections with 'A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology.' This anthology presents a panoramic exploration of social issues, ranging from urban poverty and criminality to behavioral psychology and societal reform. The collection encompasses a variety of literary styles, including investigative narratives,
... Read more
Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

by Jerome McGann, Scott Peeples, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Eliza Richards, Maurice Lee, Betsy Erkkila, Leland S. Person, Anna Brickhouse, Leon Jackson ...

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 the pressure to write nationalistic "American" tales or from a restricted New England perspective, he ... Read more

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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 the pressure to write nationalistic "American" tales or from a restricted New England perspective, he
... Read more
Anthologizing Poe

Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

by Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato, Jana L. Argersinger, Fernando González-Moreno, John Gruesser, Michelle Kay Hansen, J. Gerald Kennedy, Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Travis Montgomery0, Scott Peeples1, Philip Edward Phillips2, Stephen Rachman3, Margarita Rigal-Aragón4, Christopher Rollason5, Jeffrey A. Savoye6, Takayuki Tatsumi7, Alexandra Urakova8, Harry Lee Poe9 ...

Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to ... Read more

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This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to
... Read more
The Man of the Crowd

Edgar Allan Poe and the City

by Scott Peeples ...

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he ... Read more

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How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he
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The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe

by Scott Peeples ...

Controversies abound in studies of Edgar Allan Poe. From the time of his death well into the twentieth century, partisans debated the issue of his character: was he an alcoholic? drug addict? pathological liar? necrophile? In the1920s and 30s, psychoanalytic critics sought to divorce the study of Poe from Victorian moral concerns but in the process made scandalous claims by linking Poe's dream ... Read more

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Controversies abound in studies of Edgar Allan Poe. From the time of his death well into the twentieth century, partisans debated the issue of his character: was he an alcoholic? drug addict? pathological liar? necrophile? In the1920s and 30s, psychoanalytic critics sought to divorce the study of Poe from Victorian moral concerns but in the process made scandalous claims by linking Poe's dream
... Read more
New Jersey Fan Club

Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State

by Kerri Sullivan, Matthew Taub, Frankie Huang, Erinn Salge, Brandon Harrison, Mike Dawson, Michael C. Gabriele, Wills Kinsley, Pooja Makhijani, Kat Schneider0, Chris Gethard1, Stacey Mei Yan Fong2, Kamelia Ani3, Kate Morgan4, Brittany Coppla5, Scott Neumyer6, Jacquinn Sinclair7, Carlos Dengler8, Miko Beach9, Caren Lissner0, Team 1:1 New Jersey1, Raakhee Mirchandani2, Brandon Stosuy3, Whit Taylor4, Alicia Cook5, Brittany Ingersoll6, Caiti Borruso7, Sarah Prager8, Elise Sacco9, lucy dean stockton0, Alexandra Beguez1, Bob Varettoni2, Jen A. Miller3, Erica Commisso4, Hallel Yadin5, Kae Lani Palmisano6, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg7, Linda J. Barth8, Donnie Martino9, Hassan Ghanny0, Lorraine Goodman1 ...

Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State is an eclectic ... Read more

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Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State is an eclectic
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New Jersey Fan Club

Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State

by Kerri Sullivan, Matthew Taub, Frankie Huang, Erinn Salge, Brandon Harrison, Mike Dawson, Michael C. Gabriele, Wills Kinsley, Pooja Makhijani, Kat Schneider0, Chris Gethard1, Stacey Mei Yan Fong2, Kamelia Ani3, Kate Morgan4, Brittany Coppla5, Scott Neumyer6, Jacquinn Sinclair7, Carlos Dengler8, Miko Beach9, Caren Lissner0, Team 1:1 New Team 1:1 New Jersey1, Raakhee Mirchandani2, Brandon Stosuy3, Whit Taylor4, Alicia Cook5, Brittany Ingersoll6, Caiti Borruso7, Sarah Prager8, Elise Sacco9, lucy dean stockton0, Alexandra Beguez1, Bob Varettoni2, Jen A. Miller3, Erica Commisso4, Hallel Yadin5, Kae Lani Palmisano6, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg7, Linda J. Barth8, Donnie Martino9, Hassan Ghanny0, Lorraine Goodman1 ...

NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2023)Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate ... Read more

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NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2023)Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate
... Read more
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The Man of the Crowd

Edgar Allan Poe and the City

by Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

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How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he ... Read more

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How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he
... Read more

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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy, Scott Peeples ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe ... Read more

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No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe
... Read more

Rudeness & Civility

Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America

by John F. Kasson ...

With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic ... Read more

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With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic
... Read more
Poe

by James M. Hutchisson ...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American original-a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe's life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves.And yet, upon his death, one obituary penned by a literary enemy in the New York Daily Tribune cascaded ... Read more

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American original-a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe's life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves.And yet, upon his death, one obituary penned by a literary enemy in the New York Daily Tribune cascaded
... Read more
Novels, Readers, and Reviewers

Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America

by Nina Baym ...

This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels—both American and European—that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840–1860, a period in which magazines, novels, and novel reviews all proliferated. Nina Baym makes uses of the reviews to gain ... Read more

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This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels—both American and European—that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840–1860, a period in which magazines, novels, and novel reviews all proliferated. Nina Baym makes uses of the reviews to gain
... Read more

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