Cover -- EDGAR ALLAN POE IN CONTEXT -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- PART ONE: Geographical Contexts -- CHAPTER 1 Great Britain -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 The South -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 The American West -- ST. LOUIS, 1849 -- CINCINNATI, 1838 -- NEW YORK CITY, 1845 -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 The Sea -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 France -- BAUDELAIRE'S MISSION -- THE SYMBOLIST ANGEL -- THE "SCIENTIFIC FANTASTIC" -- THE DECADENT DEMON -- NEW GENRES: SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ROMAN POLICIER -- SURREALISM, CINEMA, AND THE BD -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 The Near East -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 The Polar Regions -- NOTES -- PART TWO: Social Contexts -- CHAPTER 8 The Urban Environment -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9 Curiosity -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10 Alcohol, Addiction, and Rehabilitation -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 11 Fashion, Furnishings, and Style -- THE PRODUCTION AND ACQUISITION OF MENSWEAR -- MEN'S STYLES -- The Suit -- Fashion, Furnishings, and Style -- Suit Coats -- Waistcoats -- Trousers -- Shirts and Neckwear -- Overcoats -- Hairstyles and Hats -- Footwear -- Accessories -- THE PRODUCTION AND ACQUISITION OF WOMEN'S CLOTHING -- FASHION AND ETIQUETTE -- WOMEN'S STYLES -- FASHIONING THE HOME -- FURNISHINGS FOR THE HOME -- The Dining Room -- POE AND THE PARLOR -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 12 The American Stage -- THE EARLY AMERICAN STAGE -- POE'S PARENTS -- POE'S EARLY THEATRICAL INTERESTS -- DRAMA AND DRAMATIC INFLUENCES -- POE AS THEATER CRITIC -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 13 Lions and Bluestockings -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 14 Slavery and Abolitionism -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 15 The Cult of Mourning -- NOTES -- PART THREE: The Contexts of Publishing -- CHAPTER 16 The Literary Profession -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 17 Magazines -- MAGAZINES IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA -- EDGAR ALLAN POE AS MAGAZINIST -- THE MAGAZINE PRISON HOUSE -- NOTES.

CHAPTER 18 Gift Books -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 19 Literary Piracy -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 20 The Art of Reviewing -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 21 The Politics of Publishing -- NOTES -- PART FOUR: Literary Contexts -- CHAPTER 22 Ancient Classics -- A CLASSICAL EDUCATION -- CREATIVE WORKS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 23 Rabelais and Lesage -- RABELAISIAN CARNIVAL REPRESENTATIONS IN POE'S SHORT STORIES -- THE DEVIL THEME IN LESAGE AND POE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 24 The Gothic Movement -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 25 Byron -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 26 Folk Narrative -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 27 Transcendentalism -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 28 Charles Dickens -- NOTES -- Chapter 29 Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Art of the Tale -- NOTES -- PART FIVE: Scientific and Pseudoscientific Contexts -- CHAPTER 30 Phrenology -- POE DISCOVERS PHRENOLOGY -- PHRENOLOGY IN POE'S FICTION -- THE PROFESSIONAL PHRENOLOGISTS AND POE -- CONCLUSION: POE'S ATTRACTION TO PHRENOLOGY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 31 Photography -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 32 Mesmerism -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 33 Architecture -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 34 The Heritage of Fiction Science -- THE IMAGINARY VOYAGE -- THE LUNAR VOYAGE -- THE STORY OF FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE -- THE CATASTROPHE STORY -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL TALE (CONTE PHILOSOPHIQUE) -- CLASSICAL UTOPIA -- IMAGINARY WAR STORY -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 35 Cosmology and Cosmogony -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 36 Forensic Science -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 37 Technology -- THE GARDEN AND THE RAILROAD -- THE POETIC AUTOMATON -- THE TECHNOLOGICAL ARABESQUE -- ANGELIC ENGINEERING -- NOTES -- Further Reading -- BIOGRAPHY -- Index.

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