Edgar Allan Poe and his nineteenth-century American counterparts / by Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…., the scrivener : biography and autobiography in Herman Melville's "Story of wall-street" -- Character rivalry, authorial sleight-of-hand, and generic fluidity in the Dupin trilogy -- Varieties of detection in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter, Walt Whitman's Life and adventures of Jack Engle, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, and Mark Twain's "The stolen white elephant" -- Madness, mystification, and "average racism" in "The gold-bug," E.D.E.N. …”