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Reading at the Social Limit by Jonathan Elmer

Reading at the Social Limit

Affect, Mass Culture, & Edgar Allan Poe

Jonathan Elmer

Stanford University Press · Print & ebook · October 1, 1995

Arguing that Poe is exemplary in his ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers a new theorization of mass culture and ideology.

19th-Century Literary CriticismAmerican Lit CritHorror Lit Crit
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19th-Century Literary Criticism, American Lit Crit, Horror Lit Crit
Published
Stanford University Press, October 1, 1995

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Arguing that Poe is exemplary in his ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers a new theorization of mass culture and ideology.

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19th-Century Literary Criticism74%
Horror Lit Crit38%
American Lit Crit28%

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Authors
Jonathan Elmer
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Published
October 1, 1995
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
American Lit Crit