Introduction / J. Gerald Kennedy
Locating the Republic of Letters. Inventing the Literati: Poe's Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture / J. Gerald Kennedy
"The Rage for Lions": Edgar Allan Poe and the Culture of Celebrity / Leon Jackson
Surveying the National Scene. Perverting the American Renaissance: Poe, Democracy, Critical Theory / Betsy Erkkil
"To Reproduce a City": New York Letters and the Urban American Renaissance / Scott Peeples
Poe's 1848: Eureka, the Southern Margin, and the Expanding U[niverse] of S[tars] / Jennifer Rae Greeson
Plotting Poe's Influence. Cruising (Perversely) for Context: Poe and Murder, Women and Apes / Leland S. Person
Robert Greenhow, Poe, and the Nineteenth-Century History of Transnational American Studies / Anna Brickhouse
Poe's Lyrical Media: The Raven's Returns / Eliza Richards
Repositioning Poe in Literary America. Poe by the Numbers: Odd Man Out? / Maurice S. Lee
Poe, Decentered Culture, and Critical Method / Jerome McGann.