Edgar Allan Poe: beyond gothicism

Poe's 'philosophy of furniture' and the aesthetics of fictional design / C.T. Walters -- Race, pirates, and intellect: a reading of Poe's "The gold-bug" / John F. Jebb -- Storytelling, narrative authority, and death in 'The thousand and second tale of Scheherazade' / James M. Hutchisson -- The man in the text: reading masculinity in 'The man that was used up, ' 'The man of the crowd, ' and 'The murders in the rue morgue' / Peter Goodwin -- Gothic displacements: Poe's south in politian / Amy C. Branam -- Poe in the ragged mountains: environmental history and romantic aesthetics / Daniel J. Phillipon -- 'King pest' and 'The tales of the Folio Club' / Benjamin F. Fisher -- Understanding 'Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling' / Kevin J. Hayes -- 'Eyes which behold': Poe's 'Domain of Arnheim' and the science of vision / Laura Saltz -- 'A species of literature almost beneath contempt': Edgar Allan Poe and the world of literary competitions / Leon Jackson -- Poe's early criticism of American fiction: the southern literary messenger and the fiction of Robert Montgomery Bird / Justin Wert -- Mad ravings, sound philosophy, and Poe's review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Dennis W. Eddings.