Against a "System of Soothing": Poe's Deviance

Much recent historically-focused scholarship has revealed the ways in which the deviant criminality in the work of Edgar Allan Poe can be read as ideologically conservative. This criticism is understandably concerned with whether the violence Poe renders against marginalized American bodies reinforc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: August, Emily
Other Authors: Professor Colin Dayan
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2010
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07272010-132612/