books.google.co.uk - Edgar Allan Poe has long been viewed as an artist who was hopelessly out of step with his time. But as Terence Whalen shows, America's most celebrated romantic outcast was in many ways the nation's most representative commercial writer. Whalen explores the antebellum literary environment in which Poe...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Edgar_Allan_Poe_and_the_masses.html?id=slR0DNOxT00C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEdgar Allan Poe and the masses