Gothic America

See my Gothic America (New York Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 73-80, for a longer discussion of the problem of positioning Poe as a proslavery southerner. See Terence Whalen, Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses (Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 111-46, for an analysis of Poe s political position and racial views. 

Goddu, Teresa A. Gothic America Narrative, History, and Nation. New York Columbia, 1997. 

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. 

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