%0 Journal Article
%T From Man of the Crowd to Cybernaut: Edgar Allan Poe¡¯s Transatlantic Journey¡ªand Back.
%A Paul Jahshan
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2008
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.2293
%X The wild effects of the light enchained me to an examination of individual faces; and¡­ it seemed that, in my then peculiar mental state, I could frequently read, even in that brief interval of a glance, the history of long years. (Poe 183)¡®This old man,¡¯ I said at length, ¡®is the type and the genius of deep crime. He refuses to be alone. He is the man of the crowd. It will be in vain to follow; for I shall learn no more of him, nor of his deeds¡­and perhaps it is but one of the great mercies o...
%K Postmodernism
%K Paul Auster
%K Greg Bear
%K Walter Benjamin
%K Gilles Deleuze
%K Michael Dibdin
%K E. L. Doctorow
%K William Gibson
%K F¨¦lix Guattari
%K Edgar Allan Poe
%K city
%K Don DeLillo
%K Thomas Pynchon
%K Crowd
%K detective
%K flaneur
%K cybernaut
%K contemporary fiction
%K nomad
%K Neal Stephenson.
%U http://ejas.revues.org/2293