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Acknowledgements Introduction: A Poetics of Descent 1. Subterranean Noises Undercurrents of American Thought The Man of the Street The Diddler's Grin 2. A Nomad in a Land of Settlers The Early Poe: Nomadic Peripety The Mature Poe: Unsettling Movement The Late Poe: Extravagant Trajectories 3. Points of No Return The Return of Personal Narrative "Of my country and of my family I have little to say" Irreversible Descent Uncharted Territories 4. The Nightmare of the Unknowable The Legitimate Sources of Terror Terror as Anti-Epistemic Unfathomability 5. Captivating the Reader Perverse Designs "To be appreciated you must be read" The Apparatus of Capture 6. The Perverse Originality of Literature Proper True Originality Generic Ambiguities 7. The Cosmopolitan's Uncanny Duplicity At Sea in the City The Doppelganger's Mirror Image 8. Extra Munia Flammantia Mundi: Satire, Fantasy, and the Critic's Laughter Phantasy Pieces The Laugh of Edgar Allan Poe Conclusion: Premature Burials BibliographyIndex.
