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This chapter discusses the hopes and disappointments and the high and low points of Poe’s New York years (early 1837 to early 1838 and April 1844 to October 1849). It also examines two sets of articles that reflect his anomalous position in relationship to the metropolis—“Doings in Gotham” (1844), a kind of travelogue by an outsider who shares what he has learned about the city with provincial readers, and “The Literati of New York City” (1846), a mix of gossipy portraits and glib assessments of New York writers from the perspective of a purported insider—as well as Poe’s 1846 story about an outsider and an insider, “The Cask of Amontillado.”
I am grateful to J. Gerald Kennedy, Scott Peeples, Carole Shaffer-Koros, and Philip Phillips for their suggestions for improving this essay.
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Gruesser, J. (2018). Outside Looking In: Edgar Allan Poe and New York City. In: Phillips, P. (eds) Poe and Place. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96788-2_7
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