Texts:
- Poe, Edgar Allan, "Complete Tales and Poems" (any edition):
"Berenice" (1835)
"Letter to Thomas W. White" (1835) available online at:
https://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p3504300.htm
"Ligeia" (1838);
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839);
"William Wilson" (1839);
"The Man That Was Used Up" (1839);
"The Man of the Crowd" (1840);
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841);
“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 Tell-Tale Heart" (1843);
"The Black Cat" (1843);
"A Tale of the Rugged Mountains" (1844);
"A Morning on the Wissahiccon" (1844);
"The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar" (1845);
"The Raven" (1845);
"The Philosophy of Composition" (1846);
"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" (1849);
- Poe, Edgar Allan, "Racconti sensazionali", testo a fronte, a cura di C. Martinez, Marsilio, Venezia, 2014: translation and analysis of "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".

Bibliography:
- Bourdieu, Pierre, "Le regole dell'arte", Milano, il saggiatore, 2013: pp. 103-176.
- 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; David Leverenz, "Spanking the Master: Mind-Body Crossings in Poe's Sensationalism", 95-127; Leland S. Person, "Poe and Nineteenth-Century Gender Cinstructions", 129-165;
- Hayes, Kevin J., ed., Edgar Allan Poe in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013: "The Urban Environment" pp. 75-84; "Slavery And Abolitionism" pp. 138-147; "The Cukt of Mourning" pp. 148-156; "The Literary Profession" pp. 159-168; "Magazines" pp. 169-178; "The Gothic Movement" pp. 241-250; "Mesmerism", pp. 322-331; "The Heritage of Fiction Science", pp. 343-352; "Forensic Science", pp. 363-371.
- 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.