Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

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Index Adams, John Quincy, 20, 70, 98n28, 179 Adorno, Theodor, 89, 90, 91 Aesthetic Theory (Adorno), 91 Agassiz, Louis, 148 “Al Aaraaf” (Poe), 71 Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (Poe), 70–71 Aldrich, James, 26 Alexander’s Weekly Messenger, 6 Allan, John, 40, 49, 72 American Common-Place Book of Poetry (Cheever), 29 American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, The (Rosenheim and Rachman), 3, 144 American literature: first anthologies of, 15, 29, 242; geographical obstacles to, 17, 26, 29; invention of, 1, 15; trends in scholarship of, 227–33, 245–47 American Melodies (Morris), 29 American Monthly Magazine, 44 American Notes for General Circulation (Dickens ), 11 American Renaissance (Matthiessen), 2, 228, 242; argument of, 65–66; concept of democracy in, 67–68; exclusion of Poe from, 65–68, 96, 101, 227, 232 “American Scholar, The” (Emerson), 67 American Whig Review, 44, 54, 74 Anderson, Benedict, 2, 14, 51, 104 “Angelic Dialogues” (Poe), 70 antebellum print culture, 3–4; decentralization of, 9, 30, 246–47; mapped via reproductions of “The Raven,” 207–15; in New York City, 103–4, 105–7; quantitative thinking and, 236–38; scope of, 4, 233–34, 236–37 anthologies, 7, 15, 29–30 Anthon, Charles, 20, 25 Arcturus, The, 25 Aristotle, 93 Arnold, Benedict, 49 Astor, John Jacob, 183, 184 Astoria (Irving), 6, 183, 184 Authors of the United States, The (Hicks), 31–33 authorship, 3, 13–15; cultural construction of, 26; modern concept of, 14; as profession, 14–15 autograph collecting, 51 “Autography” (Poe), 6, 19–20, 119, 251; as analysis of status, 50–52; authors included in, 20, 22–23, 52; different versions of, 22–24, 51; goals of, 19, 22 Babbage, Charles, 234, 236 Bacon, Francis, 93, 235 “Balloon Hoax, The” (Poe), 6, 105, 108, 251 Bancroft, George, 30, 32, 171 Bank of the United States, 77 Barlow, Thomas Oldham, 31 Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 204–5 Barnum, P. T., 42, 47, 55 Barrett, Elizabeth, 204, 222n6 Barrett, Lindon, 152 Barthes, Roland, 143 Baudelaire, Charles, 65, 67, 237, 247 Beecher, Henry Ward, 32 Beneath the American Renaissance (Reynolds ), 101 Benjamin, Park, 23 Benjamin, Walter, 65, 69, 74–75, 77, 84, 88–91, 201, 207; on “The Man of the Crowd,” 92 263 264 | index Bennett, James Gordon, 44, 108 “Berenice” (Poe), 48; narrator of, 85–86; origins of, 86; the perverse in, 86 Berkhofer, Robert, 17 Biddle, Nicholas, 77, 183 Bird, Isabella, 102 Bird, Robert Montgomery, 6, 20 “Black Cat, The” (Poe), 87, 88; theory of the perverse in, 86 Blackwood’s Magazine, 241–42 Bodine, Polly, 108 Boker, George, 32 Bourdieu, Pierre, 38 Bowen, Eli, 105 Briggs, Charles, 25, 222n6, 248, 249 Broadway Journal, 25, 53, 66, 75, 101, 105, 108, 111, 120n30, 133, 134, 209, 212, 214, 236; Longfellow controversy and, 248–49; scholarly edition of, 248–51 Brook Farm, 116–17, 130 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 44 Brooks, Van Wyck, 227 Brown, Charles Brockden, 85 Bryant, William Cullen, 20, 29, 30, 32, 33, 43 Buckle, Henry, 235 Buffon, Georges, 159 Bulwer, Edward, 108 Bündchen, Gisele, 154–55, 165n12 Buntline, Ned, 106 Burnshaw, Stanley, 246 Burrows, Edwin G., 102 Burton, William, 21, 22, 119, 180, 241 Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, 6, 8, 21, 49, 180, 182, 236, 237, 241 “Business Man, The” (Poe), 101, 110, 120n30. See also “Peter Pendulum, The Business Man” (Poe) Byron, Lord, 15, 18, 49, 210–11, 232; as celebrity , 42–43 Cadenhead, Rogers, 154 Carey, Lea, and Blanchard (publisher), 21 Carey, Matthew, 20 Carver, Jonathan, 187 Cash, W. J., 72 “Cask of Amontillado, The” (Poe), 87 Cassuto, Leonard, 147–48, 152, 156, 159 celebrity, 6, 41–56; antebellum critiques of, 43–44; created by cliques, 46–47; definition of, 41–42; fraud and, 43–47; morale vs. physique in, 45; types of, 42 Chandler, Joseph, 52 Channing, William Ellery, 20, 32, 33 Charvat, William, 14, 234 Cheever, George B., 29 Cheney, Russell, 95, 96 Child, Lydia Maria, 2, 6, 23, 25, 32,101, 111– 16, 118, 119. See also Letters from New York (Child) “Child’s Reminiscence, A” (Whitman), 215, 217. See also “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (Whitman) Chivers, Thomas Holley, 23, 25, 48, 54, 204 City Reading (Henkin), 103 “City in the Sea, The” (Poe), 69, 113; apocalypse in, 72–73; cultural critique in, 74; revisions of, 73–74 “City of Sin, The” (Poe), 72, 73. See also “City in the Sea, The” (Poe) Clapp, Henry, 216 Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 25 Clarke, Thomas, 24 Clemm, Maria, 104 Cohen, Patricia Cline, 235 Coleridge...