Text:
- Poe, Edgar Allan, "Complete Tales and Poems" (any edition);
"Letter to Thomas W. White" (1835) available online at:
https://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p3504300.htm
“Review of Twice-Told Tales” (1842): https://www.eapoe.org/works/criticsm/gm542hn1.htm
TALE-WRITING — NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE" (1847): https://www.eapoe.org/works/criticsm/glb47hn1.htm
"The Philosophy of Composition" (1846);
"Berenice" (1835);
"Hans Pfaall" (1835);
"“Prospectus of the Penn Magazine” (1840);
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841);
"The Man of the Crowd" (1840);
"The Balloon Hoax" (1844);
“The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar” (1845);
“Von Kempelen and His Discovery” (1849).

Critical Bibliography:
- Bourdieu, Pierre, "The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field", Polity Press, 1996.
- Kennedy, J. Gerald , ed., A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001: Gerald Kennedy, "Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849: A Brief Biography", pp. 19-59; Terence Whalen, "Poe and the Publishing Industry", pp. 63-93.
- Hayes, Kevin J., ed., Edgar Allan Poe in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013: "The Urban Environment" pp. 75-84; "The Literary Profession" pp. 159-168; "Magazines" pp. 169-178.
- Kennedy, J. Gerald and McGann, Jerome, eds., Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Universirty Press, 2012: "Inventing the Literati: Poe's Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture" pp. 13-36;
- Kennedy, J. Gerald, Strange Nation: Nationalism and Cultural Conflicts in the Age of Poe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016: pp. 36-42; 62-72.
-J. Gerald Kennedy e Scott Peeples, "The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe", Oxford U.P., 2019.