Author: Elmer, Jonathan
Title: Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture and Edgar Allen Poe
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, x, 259 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Figure of Mass Culture; Publicity, Plagiarism, & the Prescriptive Right of the Mob; Poe, Sensationalism, & the Sentimental Tradition; Confessing the Crime of Confession; The Cultural Logic of the Hoax.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Literature, Edgar Allen Poe, Critical Theory, Popular Culture, , , ,