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All of modern urban life was here, it seemed, and Poe was horrified at the prospect: dismissing the populists’ concern with ‘the amelioration of society’ as mere ‘cant’, being nothing less than a ‘trick’ designed to impart ‘a tone of dignity or utilitarianism’ 3 to artistically worthless because politically dangerous fictions. At the time of the review, moreover, the novel had launched a host of imitations which had transposed the Frenchman’s anti-elitist concerns, his populist rhetoric and sexually lurid set-pieces onto the emergent American cityscape. To Poe’s horror, the novel’s sentimental treatment of the nineteenth century’s core conceptual opposition of ‘nature’ and ‘the city’, its titillating exposé of urban prostitution and its populist political concern with proletarian hardship had already caught the public imagination in the United States where its first cities were coming into being. 2 Sue’s was a tale of politicized sensation, portraying in lurid detail the opulent depravity of the Parisian upper classes and the miserable, squalid lives of the city’s poor. In November 1846 1 Edgar Allan Poe published an excoriating review of a new translation of Eugène Sue’s 1842 novel Mysteries of Paris.

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