American Literary History

See, for example, J. Gerald Kennedy, The Violence of Melancholy Poe Against Himself, American Literary History 8 (1996) 536. 

Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation (Leipzig Tauchnitz, 1842), pp. 281-297. Poe met Dickens in Philadelphia in 1842 during his tour of the United States. Joan Dayan, Poe, Persons, and Property, American Literary History ii (Fall 1999) 406-407, argues that The Pit and the Pendulum and The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether are based on Dickens description of the Eastern Penitentiary. 

TERESA A. GODDU, Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Gothic America Narrative, History, and Nation (1997). Her essays and reviews have appeared in American Literary History, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Studies in the Novel. She is currently writing a book on anti-slavery literature. 

R. W. Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist and poet, a leading figure in American literary history. 

Finn Pollard is a Senior Lectrrrer in History and American Studies at the University of Lincoln. His first book. The Literary Quest for an American National Character, was pubhshed last year by Routledge and is now available in paperback. 

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