Terence Whalen. Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: the Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America.

Studies in Romanticism | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. x+328. $55.00.

Terence Whalen frames his study of Poe's engagements with the literary marketplace as a singular intervention into a largely psychoanalytic critical tradition, claiming that "far from being the wild offspring of an autonomous or diseased mind, Poe's tales were in many ways the rational product of social labor, imagined and executed in the workshop of American capitalism" (9). While a distinguished tradition of Poe criticism has cast his writings as anomalous works of asocial, ahistorical genius, a ...

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