3. A ‘‘Rara Avis in Terris ’’: Poe’s ‘‘Hop-Frog’’ and Race in the Antebellum Freak Show

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Prologue: Staging Manhood, Writing Manhood: Cultural Authority and the Indian Body 21
7. 1 ‘‘De Genewine Artekil’’: William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and Abolitionism 37
8. 2. The Indian in the Museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and Authentic Manhood 67
9. 3. A ‘‘Rara Avis in Terris ’’: Poe’s ‘‘Hop-Frog’’ and Race in the Antebellum Freak Show 98
10. 4. Inward Criminality and the Shadow of Race: The House of the Seven Gables and Daguerreotypy 125
11. Epilogue: Electric Chains 151
12. Notes 157
13. Bibliography 241
14. Index 267