The Political Poe

The Political Poe examines the collective works of Edgar Allan Poe through a political lens. While others have gestured toward Poe's gloomy conservatism, Michael J. Blouin argues that Poe's reaction against Jacksonian America-with its drift into populism, demagoguery, and what Poe felt was an unhinged politicization of everyday life-mirror the concerns of contemporary American life. Poe consistently denounced democracy. He leveraged racist and misogynistic tendencies. But despite these poli...