Abstracts for the PSA Panels at the American Literature Association Conference

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Research Article| April 01 2017 Abstracts for the PSA Panels at the American Literature Association Conference The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2017) 18 (1): 97–102. https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.18.1.0097 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abstracts for the PSA Panels at the American Literature Association Conference. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 1 April 2017; 18 (1): 97–102. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.18.1.0097 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Edgar Allan Poe Review Search Advanced Search Poe was a master of design—pleasurably intent on manipulating readers and, by his own account, on holding them in narrative thrall through well-crafted “unity of effect.” But in The Literati of New York City, an 1846 anthology of critical profiles published serially in Godey's Lady's Book, he is at pains to disavow design. This series, Poe asserts in his preface, simply offers “some honest opinions at random respecting [the literati's] autorial merits, with occasional words of personality.” “The length of each article,” Poe suggests in later unpublished notes, is not meant to be “taken as the measure of the author's importance.” Following no “precise order or arrangement” in his notices of both male and female writers, most of whom he purports to know well, Poe conveys not only his own views but those of “conversational society” in the “literary circles” to which he claims entrée, exposing in print... You do not currently have access to this content.