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From: Journal of Southern History
Date: 20010801
Author:DERRICK, SCOTT S.
Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America. By Terence Whalen. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 328. $55.00, ISBN 0-691-00199-5.)
Terence Whalen's impressive Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses is an important and carefully researched book on Poe, and it should appeal to a broad range of academic readers. Whalen is a remarkably well versed Poe scholar in terms of both primary and secondary texts. His elegantly and lucidly written book contains a broad array of historical discussions, all of which come to ...
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