New York:
Oxford University Press,
1969.
First American edition,
Octavo,
Hardcover.
A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
The author shows how, with an intensity all his own, Poe used the " Blackwood formula" and other British journalistic conventions, "projecting a literary personality in the same way, engaging in the same kind of critical controversy; striking a similar self-consciuously 'learned' pose in his fiction, criticism, and general writing; exploiting the hoax in a similar way; and imitating several of the British modes of magazine fiction, in particular the burlesque and the horror tale." Jacket price-clipped, else fine.
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