American Flaneur: The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe by James V. Werner
By James V. Werner
While James V. Werner concentrates on Poe's fiction, this e-book treats many parts of nineteenth-century highbrow and pop culture, together with technology and pseudo-science, the yank journal market, city topology, the ugly, labyrinths, narratives of exploration and discovery, and cosmological treatises. Werner attracts on Marxist, reader reaction and periodical theories whereas reconstructing Poe via examinations of ephemeral texts of the time.
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