On Poe

Louis J. Budd in James B. Duke Professor, Emeritus, at Duke University.Edwin H. Cady is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Duke University. Both scholars have served as Managing Editor and Chair of the Board of Editors of American Literature.

• Series Introduction viiPoe and Phrenology (1930) / Edward Hungerford 1Poe as Social Critic (1934) / Ernest Marchand 24Edgar Allen Poe, Cryptographer (1936) / William F. Fiedman 40Edgar Allen Poe: A Crisis in the History of American Obscurantism (1937) / Yvor Winters 55Poe and the Chess Automaton (1939) / W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. 78The Refrain in Poe's Poetry (1953) / Anthony Caputi 92Poe and His Nemesis--Lewis Gaylord Clark (1956) / Sidney P. Moss 102Poe as Literary Theorist: A Reappraisal (1961) / Emerson R. Marks 122The Comic in Poe's Fiction (1962) / Stephen L. Mooney 133Poe's "Metzengerstein": Not a Hoax (1971) / Benjamin F. Fisher 142Poe's Sense of an Ending (1973) / Paul John Eakin 150The Limits of Reason: Poe's Deluded Detectives (1975) / J. Gerald Kennedy 172Usher's Hypochondriasis: Mental Alienation and Romantic Idealism in Poe's Gothic Tales (1976) / David W. Butler 185Poe and the Theme of Forbidden Knowledge (1978) / Jules Zanger 197"The language of the cipher": Interpretation in "The Gold-Bug" (1982) / Michael Williams 208The Psychology of "The Murders in the Rue Morge" (1982) / J. A. Leo Lemay 223Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story (1987) / Cynthia S. Jordan 247Index 267

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