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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Poe's Spaces and Poetic Places.- Part 1: Temporal and Atemporal Spaces.- 2. Pathoregimes: Poe, Pestilence, Space and Time.- 3. The Spaces of Temporal Deviance in Poe's Fiction.- 4. Etna's Observatory: Poe's Eureka and Spaces of Literary and Scientific Recombination.- 5. When Worlds Collide: The Convergence of Science and Faith in Eureka.- Part 2: Social and Political Spaces.- 6. Poe's Two Tales of Bostonian Transcendentalism.- 7. Helen of Boston: Frogpondian Shadows in the Romance of Edgar A. Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman.- 8. Spaces of Courtship: Poe's Love Poems and the Language of Flowers.- 9. The Menace of the Mob: Poe and Jacksonian Populism.- 10. Purloined Voices, Paranoid Spaces: Poe, de Man, and Nixon.- Part 3: Imaginative and Psychological Spaces.- 11. Apocalypses of the Mind: De Quinceyan Models, Altered Consciousness, and Imagined Spaces in Poe's Poems (1831).- 12. Acoustic Effects in the Mesmeric Space of Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar".- 13. Poe's Arabesque Manner; Making Space for Satirical Reflection.- 14. Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" as Prison of the Mind: A Claustrophobic Space Imagined by Illustrators.- Part 4: Transnational and Translated Spaces.- 15. Poe, Benson, and the Development of New Aesthetic Space in Post-Bellum America.- 16. "Indestructible Fragments": Reevaluating Borges's Thoughts on Poe's Poetry.- 17. Placing J. de Granada's Neglected Translation of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".- 18. Poe Among the Spanish Fascist Writers: An Intellectual Space.- 19. From "Out of Space" to the Expanded Page: Poe and Brazilian Concrete Poetry.
