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Origins and legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie noire

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Marcel Duhamel's translations and the Serie noire: myths and received wisdom -- Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire: the origins of a noir skopos -- Peter Cheyney: the man who was dangerous -- James Hadley Chase, Miss Blandish and the hidden face of the Serie noire -- Vernon Sullivan, forever on the sidelines of the Serie noire -- Jim Thompson and the lost souls of the Serie noire -- Douglas Kennedy, the man for whom crime paid -- Conclusion: where to from here for Serie noire studies?…”
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The aesthetics of international law by Morgan, Edward M., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Edgar Allan Poe: law and terrorism -- Henrik Ibsen and Bertolt Brecht: war crimes trials -- Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T.S. …”
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Lying on the Postcolonial Couch : the Idea of Indifference. by Nair, Rukmini Bhaya

Table of Contents: “…Multiculturalism: Other Worlds in Edgar Allan Poe and Satyajit Ray; 6. Colonization: Omeros Sails between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.…”
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Frontier : American literature and the American West by Fussell, Edwin S.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Leatherstocking tales of James Fenimore Cooper -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Sketches of Western adventure ; The scarlet letter ; Neutral territory -- Edgar Allan Poe -- South and West ; Narratives of exploration and discovery -- Henry David Thoreau -- Essential West ; Walden : the pioneer ; Walden : the frontier -- Herman Melville -- Early Western travels ; Moby-Dick ; Disputed frontier ; The confidence-man -- Indian summer of the literary West -- Thoreau's unwritten epic ; Hawthorne's last stand ; Melville as poet -- Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass.…”
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Apropos of Ideology : Translation Studies on Ideology-ideologies in Translation Studies. by Calzada Pérez, María

Table of Contents: “…; 'Events' and 'Horizons' Reading Ideology in the 'Bindings' of Translations; (Mis)Translating Degree Zero Ideology and Conceptual Art; Function and Loyalty in Bible Translation; The Translation Bureau Revisited Translation as Symbol; Submerged Ideologies in Media Interpreting; The Manipulation of Language and Culture in Film Translation; The Power of Originals and the Scandal of Translation A Reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait."…”
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100 American crime writers / One hundred American crime writers

Table of Contents: “…Parker -- George Pelecanos -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Melville Davisson Post -- Richard S. …”
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The scientific Sherlock Holmes : cracking the case with science and forensics by O'Brien, James F., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Conan Doyle -- The influence of Edgar Allan Poe -- The influence of Dr. Joseph Bell -- Meet the main characters. …”
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Lost in the Antebellum. by Morritt, Robert D.

Table of Contents: “…HEWITT; THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY; DAVID CROCKETT (ALSO KNOWN AS DAVY CROCKETT); LYDIA SIGOURNEY; RECOLLECTIONS OF SIX DAYS JOURNEY IN THE MOON BY AN AERIO-NAUTICAL MAN; LOUISE ANTOINE GODEY; JOHN HOWARD PAYNE; ZEBULON PIKE; SARA PAYSON WILLIS PARTON ("FANNY FERN"); HENRY TIMROD; HENRY CLAY LEWIS -- THE SWAMP DOCTOR; EDGAR ALLAN POE; WILLIAM WALKER; PHOEBE CARY; ALICE CARY; JAMES BOWIE; JAMES HOWARD -- STEAMBOAT BUILDER; STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER; MARGARET FULLER; SARAH JOSEPHA HALE; HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.…”
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The scientific Sherlock Holmes : cracking the case with science and forensics / cracking the case with science & forensics by O'Brien, James F., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Conan Doyle -- The influence of Edgar Allan Poe -- The influence of Dr. Joseph Bell -- Meet the main characters. …”

Untold. / Untold :

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Twentieth century interpretations of The fall of the house of Usher ; a collection of critical essays.

Table of Contents: “…Booth -- Part two: interpretations -- Edgar Allan Poe / D.H. Lawrence -- A key to the house of Usher / Darrel Abet -- A reinterpretation of "The fall of the house of Usher" / Leo Spitzer -- Poe as symbolist / Charles Feidelson, Jr. -- "That spectre in my path," / Patrick F. …”

Soft canons : American women writers and masculine tradition

Table of Contents: “…Easton -- Transforming Traditions -- Body/Rituals: The (Homo)Erotics of Death in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Rose Terry Cooke, and Edgar Allan Poe / Ralph J. Poole -- The Five Million Women of My Race: Negotiations of Gender in W.E.B. …”
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Poe's the tell-tale heart / Tell-tale heart

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American short stories. by West, Ray Benedict, 1908-1990

If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript by Croll, Angus

Table of Contents: “…Ernest Hemingway ; William Shakespeare ; André Breton ; Roberto Bolaño ; Dan Brown -- "The Variable" / inspired by Edgar Allan Poe -- FACTORIAL. Jack Kerouac ; Jane Austen ; Samuel Johnson ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; James Joyce -- "Macbeth's Lost Callback" / inspired by William Shakespeare -- HAPPY NUMBERS. …”
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Narrating the news : new journalism and literary genre in late nineteenth-century American newspapers and fiction by Roggenkamp, Karen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Literary rooms in the house of news -- The sun, the moon, and two balloons: Edgar Allan Poe, literary hoaxes, and penny press journalism -- American literary realism and the cult of the real ting -- "To turn a fiction to a fact": Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and trips around the world -- Journalist as hero: Richard Harding Davis and the cult of the reporter in 1890s America -- A front seat to Lizzie Borden: Julian Ralph, literary journalism, and the construction of criminal fact -- True women and new women: Lizzie Borden and gender anxieties in late nineteenth-century America -- The Evangelina Cisneros romance, medievalist fiction, and journalism that acts -- Captive Cubans, international impulses, and new journalism -- From there to here: Cooke, conventions, conclusions.…”
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Literature and criminal justice in antebellum America by Ostrowski, Carl, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Voices from Prison: Antebellum Memoirs of Incarceration; Conclusion: Christian Meadows, Edgar Allan Poe, and the "Magazine Prison-House"; Notes; Index; About the Author; Back Cover.…”
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Erotic Motive in Literature. by Mordell, Albert

Table of Contents: “…X The Infantile Love Life of the Author and its SublimationsXI Sexual Symbolism in Literature -- XII Cannibalism: The Atreus Legend -- XIII Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism -- XIV Keats' Personal Love Poems -- XV Shelley's Personal Love Poems -- XVI Psychoanalytic Study of Edgar Allan Poe -- XVII The Ideas of Lafcadio Hearn…”
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Dead women talking : encounters with the past in American literature by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" -- Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw -- Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens -- Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead -- Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God -- Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones -- Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body -- When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman."…”
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The American short story handbook by Nagel, James

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part 1 Introduction; Part 2 Historical Overview of the American Short Story; The American Story to Washington Irving; The Age of Romanticism; Realism and Naturalism; American Modernism; The Contemporary American Short Story; Part 3 Notable Authors of American Short Stories; Washington Irving; Suggestions for Further Reading; Edgar Allan Poe; Suggestions for Further Reading; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Suggestions for Further Reading; Herman Melville; Suggestions for Further Reading; Mark Twain; Suggestions for Further Reading; Bret Harte.…”
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Curtis Harrington short film collection

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Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature by Coviello, Peter

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Philadelphia Stories : America's Literature of Race and Freedom. by Otter, Samuel

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Arguing with numbers : the intersections of rhetoric and mathematics

Table of Contents: “…Mitchell Reyes -- The Ourang-Outang in the Rue Morgue : Charles Peirce, Edgar Allan Poe, and the rhetoric of diagrams in detective fiction / Andrew C. …”
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Literary culture and U.S. imperialism : from the Revolution to World War II by Rowe, John Carlos

Table of Contents: “…Literary culture and U.S. imperialism -- The dream of enlightenment and the nightmare of imperialism: Charles Brockden Brown;s Wieland and Edgar Huntly -- Edgar Allan Poe's imperial fantasy and the American frontier -- Melville's Typee: U.S. imperialism at home and abroad -- Highway robbery: "Indian removal," the Mexican American War, and the American identity in John Rollin Ridge's (Yellow Bird) The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta -- Mark Twain's rediscovery of America in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Race, gender, and imperialism in Stephen Crane: A Monstrous Case -- The Education of Henry Adams and the American empire -- W.E.B. …”
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Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature by Coviello, Peter

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George Garrett : a critical biography by Clabough, Casey, 1974-

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American terror : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville by Hurh, Paul

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Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol. by Frank, Adam

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Keats, Poe, and the Shaping of Cortazar's Mythopoesis. by Hernandez Del Castillo, Ana

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The Story of America : Essays on Origins. by Lepore, Jill

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Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer -- A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin -- Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne -- The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf -- Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton -- Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons -- Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery -- Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. …”
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Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer -- A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin -- Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne -- The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf -- Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton -- Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons -- Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery -- Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. …”
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Travels with George in search of Ben Hur and other meanderings by Ruffin, Paul

Table of Contents: “…; On the Death of Edgar Allan Poe; Making Preparations for the Tour; The Girl in the Clean, Well-Lighted Place; Explaining a Poem to a Student; Some Rare and Unusual Books; Tales from Kentucky Lawyers; The Boy who Spoke in Hymns; Making a Dam in Segovia; Just Thinking about Shit; To San Juan and Back: Ah, Youth!…”
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Poe and the Printed Word. by Hayes, Kevin J.

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The Crime Fiction Handbook by Messent, Peter

Table of Contents: “…THE CRIME FICTION HANDBOOK -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory Note -- Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: The Politics, Main Forms, and Key Concerns of Crime Fiction -- The Politics of Crime Fiction -- The Types of Crime Fiction -- Classical Detective Fiction -- Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction -- The Police Novel -- Transgressor Narratives -- Vision, Supervision, and the City -- Crime and the Body -- Gender Matters -- Representations of Race -- Part 3: Some KeyWorks in Crime Fiction -- Edgar Allan Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) -- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four (1890)…”
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The partisan : a romance of the revolution by Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870

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The Transit of Venus by Firer, Susan

Table of Contents: “…#XIV; Three: Conjugating Space; Brother Michelangelo; Four: Breaking and Entering; Reading My Ántonia; A Rock Named Edgar Allan Poe; Money Is the Thing with Feathers; Checklist; Swabians; Flyby Ice Age; The Happiness Tourist; I Have Always Measured in Poems; Some of Us Are Not Born; Grapefruit; Sentences I Never Thought I Would Say…”
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40 short stories : a portable anthology / Forty short stories

Table of Contents: “…Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Araby / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcâia Mâarquez -- A & P / John Updike -- Inbound / Edith Pearlman -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been? …”

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. by Gray, Richard

Table of Contents: “…15 African-American Fiction and Poetry16 Southern Drama; 17 Sports in the South; 18 The South Through Other Eyes; 19 The South in Popular Culture; PART III Individuals and Movements; 20 Edgar Allan Poe; 21 Southwestern Humor; 22 Mark Twain; 23 Ellen Glasgow; 24 Fugitives and Agrarians; 25 William Faulkner; 26 Literature of the African-American Great Migration; 27 Zora Neale Hurston; 28 Flannery O'Connor; 29 Eudora Welty; 30 Oral Culture and.…”
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