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Masques, Mysteries, and Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany

Edited by

Benjamin F. Fisher

Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, Inc.

2006

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Key to Recurrent References				vi
Introduction				vii
The Thing Needed: Hope and Despair in “Ulalume” Patrick J. White				1
Shadow and Substance in “Eldorado” Dennis W. Eddings				17
“The Masque of the Red Death” as a Diddle Joseph Rosenblum				24
The Narrative Mask of the Red Death M. Denis Schimp Magnuson				31
“The Masque of the Red Death”: A Note on Hawthorne”s Influence Jerry A. Herndon				38
Poe’s Force of Disorder: The Grotesque in Cultural Context Leonard Cassuto				45
Poe’s Duplicitous Dupin Roberta Sharp				64
“Mastodons of the Press”: Poe, the Mammoth Weeklies, and the Case of the Saturday Emporium Kent P. Ljungquist				77
Petrachan Echoes and Petrarchanism in “Ligeia” Edward Piacentino				102
The Phantom Listener in Poe’s “The Cask”; or, “Is There Anybody There?” Richard P. Benton				115
“Hop-Frog” and the American Nightmare Ronald Gottesman				133
On a Merry-Go-Round Named Denial: Critics, “Hop-Frog,” and Poe Ruth L. Clements				145
The Saturday Museum Sketch of Poe, Afterword by Benjamin F. Fisher				155
Where Lies a Noble Spirit? — An Investigation into the Curious Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s Grave in Baltimore Christopher Scharpf				194
Contributors				223
Index				225

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In Memory of

Alexander G. Rose III

Brooke Peirce

Carol Peirce

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