Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One The Problem of Poe's Appeal: Intellectual and Market Background; Chapter Two Poe's Composite Autobiography; Chapter Three The Recycling of Critical Authority: Lessons from Coleridge and Hazlitt; Chapter Four The Debunking Work of Poe's light gothic Tales; Chapter Five The Importance of Ambiguity: Unreliable Narration and the Marketing of Sensation; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The circulation and marketing of Edgar Allan Poe's prose are explored in this book through close readings of Poe's fictive, journalistic, and critical writings, and an examination of his involvement in the transatlantic literary marketplace and his development of a literary brand
