Whalen Terence

Walsh, John Evangelist. Poe the Detective The Curious Circumstances behind the Mystery of Marie Roget. New Brunswick Rutgers University Press, 1967. Whalen, Terence. Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America. Princeton University Press, 1999. 

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. 

Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1992), 58 Terence Whalen, Poe and the Masses, pp. 140-141, finds Pompey indicates Poe s wariness toward slavery. ... 

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