“This is a brilliant exploration of Poe’s writing in relation to the formation of modern mass subjectivity.” —Michael Moon, Duke University

“A brilliant exploration of Poe’s writing in relation to the formation of modern mass subjectivity. Elmer quite persuasively demonstrates that both the tremendous popularity of Poe’s writing and his anomalous status in the literary canon can best be understood as effects of his writing’s perverse and powerful refusal to disavow the ‘massifying’ efforts of modernity.” —Michael Moon, Duke University

Jonathan Elmer is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University.