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Article: READING AT THE SOCIAL LIMIT: AFFECT, MASS CULTURE AND EDGAR ALLAN POE.(Review) (book reviews)
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- June 22, 1997
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READING AT THE SOCIAL LIMIT: AFFECT, MASS CULTURE AND EDGAR ALLAN POE by Jonathan Elmer. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1995. viii + 259 pages. $35.
Reading at the Social Limit is an attempt to explain theoretically the dynamic interplay of the "subject" of democratic society and "mass culture," ingeniously locating exempla of its theory in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. In other words, this book's subject is not "Poe" in any traditional sense; in fact, as Jonathan Elmer is careful to point out in his introduction, neither should readers seeing the term "mass culture" in his title expect a "descriptive, historicist account" or a "clearly ...
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