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- English
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The Political Poe
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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 politics, Blouin uncovers lessons for a world where political thought is antagonistic and every truth has become a battleground for partisan bickering. Here, horror isn't just a heartbeat beneath the floorboards; it's a lack of political imagination for what can be created.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prelude: The Political Turn of Edgar Allan Poe
- Chapter 1. The Whiggish Poe
- Chapter 2. Poe and the Politics of Piracy
- Chapter 3. The Van Buren-ism of Edgar Allan Poe
- Chapter 4. Consuming Edgar; or, Poe’s Pestilential Politics
- Chapter 5. The Political Dupin
- Chapter 6. The Tell-Tale Heart of Tyranny
- Chapter 7. Totalitarian Democracy in the Days of Poe
- Chapter 8. Ostinato; or, Poe’s Revolutions
- Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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