Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, & Edgar Allan Poe

by Jonathan Elmer

Overview

A Stanford UniversityPress classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804725415
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	10/01/1995
Edition description:	1
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jonathan Elmer is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University.

Editorial Reviews

This is a brilliant exploration of Poe’s writing in relation to the formation of modern mass subjectivity.” —Michael Moon, Duke University

“A brilliant exploration of Poe’s writing in relation to the formation of modern mass subjectivity. Elmer quite persuasively demonstrates that both the tremendous popularity of Poe’s writing and his anomalous status in the literary canon can best be understood as effects of his writing’s perverse and powerful refusal to disavow the ‘massifying’ efforts of modernity.” —Michael Moon, Duke University

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