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

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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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The History of Southern literature

Table of Contents: “…Simpson -- 1776-1815 / Lewis Leary -- The old South, 1815-1840 / Craig Werner -- Antebellum fiction ; William Gilmore Simms / Mary Ann Wimsatt -- Antebellum poetry / Rayburn S. Moore -- Edgar Allan Poe / Robert D. Jacobs -- Antebellum humor / Mary Ann Wimsatt and Robert L. …”

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

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Travels with George in search of Ben Hur and other meanderings by Ruffin, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Things Literary, More or Less; Travels with George in Search of Ben Hur; The Mosquito; The Lady with the Quick Simile; Workshopping a Cowboy Poem; Was Emily Mad or Merely Angry?; 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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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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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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Selected Sonnets : a Bilingual Edition. by Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580

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Reading fiction in antebellum America : informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865 by Machor, James L.

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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? …”

"Miscegenation" : making race in America by Lemire, Elise Virginia

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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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Monstrosität : Abweichungen in Literatur und Wissenschaften des 19. Jahrhunderts by Howe, Jan Niklas

Table of Contents: “…4.2 Überlegungen zu einer Problemgeschichte des Triebbegiffs 4.3 Psychiatrische Semantik des Monströsen ; 4.4 Von der politischen Megäre zur armen Seele ; 4.5 Refiguration des Menschenmonsters ; 5 Der Monolog des Triebs: Edgar Allan Poe ; 5.1 Gesten der Leugnung.…”
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Origins and futures : time inflected and reflected

Table of Contents: “…Futures Opened, Futures Closed -- The Human Temporal Condition between Memory and Hope / Steven Ostovich -- Bachelard's "Discontinuous Bergsonism" in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" : How Self-Generation of "Pure Time" Engenders Free Choice / Patricia Engle -- Tales of Time and Terror : Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of History and the Narrative Aesthetics of Edgar Allan Poe / Marcus Bullock -- The Future of August 6th, 1945 : A Case of the "Peaceful Utilization" of Nuclear Energy in Japan / Masae Yuasa -- Forgiveness as the Opening of the Future / Karmen MacKendrick.…”
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The Continuum encyclopedia of American literature / Encyclopedia of American literature

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Cryptomimesis : the gothic and Jacques Derrida's ghost writing by Castricano, Carla Jodey, 1947-

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Bestial Traces : Race, Sexuality, Animality. by Peterson, Christopher

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Lives of the novelists : a history of fiction in 294 lives by Sutherland, John, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Postscript: Prentiss Ingraham -- 34. Edgar Allan Poe -- 35. Mrs Gaskell -- 36. Fanny Fern -- 37. …”
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Lolita between adaptation and interpretation : from Nabokov's novel and screenplay to Kubrick's film by Pilinska, Anna

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American graphic : disgust and data in contemporary literature by Clark, Rebecca (Rebecca Bennett)

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Lovecraft : Disturbing the Universe. by Burleson, Donald R.

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Martin Faber : the story of a criminal ; with "Confessions of a Murderer" by Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870

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A skeptic's guide to writers' houses by Trubek, Anne, 1966-

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Rainbows : nature and culture by MacCannell, Daniel

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Lovecraft and influence : his predecessors and successors

Table of Contents: “…I Can Tell You the Whole Story": Monologues and Confessions in the Early Works of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe / Alex Houstoun -- Lovecraft's Debt to Lord Dunsany / Darrell Schweitzer -- A Reprehensible Habit: H.P. …”
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American literature before 1880 by Lawson-Peebles, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The rising empireThe fall of the British American empire; 4 The New Republic, 1776-1826; The age of Paine; Writing in a vacuum; Experiment and failure: Charles Brockden Brown; Transatlantic domesticity; Transatlantic difficulties: the early work of James Fenimore Cooper; 5 Growth and Identity, 1812-1865; Transatlantic trifles; Fenimore Cooper and the follies of democracy; Yankee attitudes; Explorations of identity: Hawthorne; Explorations of identity: the fiction of Melville; The nation in flux: Edgar Allan Poe; Disunion and Civil War; 6 Prospects for the Great Republic, 1865-1880.…”
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Literary theory : a guide for the perplexed by Klages, Mary

Table of Contents: “…-- Humanist literary theory : Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Bacon, Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Arnold -- Structuralism : Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss and 'the structural study of myth', Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism -- Deconstruction : Binary opposition, The role of the center, Bricolage -- Psychoanalysis : Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Interlude: 'self' to 'subject' -- Feminism : 'Pre-poststructuralist' feminist literary theory, Poststructuralist feminist literary theory, Hélène Cixous and 'The laugh of the Medusa', Luce Irigaray and 'This sex which is not one' -- Queer theory : Flexible sexuality?…”
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Genre fission : a new discourse practice for cultural studies by Barr, Marleen S.

Table of Contents: “…-- Private Lives: Peaceful Coexistences -- Bridging the Dead Father's Canonical Divide: Max Apple, Saul Bellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lynn Redgrave Form a Textual Cross-Dresser Support Group -- "All Good Things": The End of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the End of Camelot, and the End of the Tale about Woman as Handmaid to Patriarchy-as-Superman -- Shutting the Bestial Mouth: Confessions of Male Clones and Girl Gangs -- Public Displays: Sexed Spectacles -- Night Watch in Amsterdam's Red Light District: Prostitutes/Dutch Windows/Utopian and Dystopian Gazes -- Los York/New Angeles: "New York, New York, a Helluva Town" Sings "I Wish They All Could Be California Girls" -- American Middle-Class Males Mark the Moon: Retrospectively Reading the Apollo Program or Lorena Bobbitt vs. the Saturn -- Premier Discourses: First Times -- Women "Churtening" via the Cha Cha: Ursula K. …”
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. / Murder at the vicarage.

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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. / Murder at the vicarage.

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A Short History of the Modern Media by Cullen, Jim

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Medium Message -- Overview -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1 Print's Run: Publishing as Popular Culture -- Overview -- Genre Study / Terrifying pleasures: Horror -- Document Study / The ravenous imagination of Edgar Allan Poe -- Document Study / Carrie: Princess of blood, King of horror -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Dramatic Developments: The World of the Stage -- Overview -- Genre Study / Notes from the stage: The Broadway musical…”
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The Lilly Library from A to Z : intriguing objects in a world-class collection by Sadlier, Darlene J. (Darlene Joy)

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Studies in classic American literature by Lawrence, D. H.

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Vintage visions : essays on early science fiction

Table of Contents: “…13 "The Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story": Hugo Gernsback's History of Science Fiction (1992)14 The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s (2010); 15 C.L. …”
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Murder most modern : detective fiction and Japanese culture by Kawana, Sari

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Vintage visions : essays on early science fiction

Table of Contents: “…13 "The Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story": Hugo Gernsback's History of Science Fiction (1992)14 The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s (2010); 15 C.L. …”
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The Pennsylvania dance theatre - world premieres

Table of Contents: “….) / inspired by the poem by Edgar Allan Poe ; choreography, Ann van Kuren ; original music, Kim Fitch ; costumes, Jennifer Kane ; lighting, Susan L. …”
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