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

by Jonathan Elmer (Author)

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

Author Biography

Jonathan Elmer is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University.