| Preface | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Pt. 1 | Capitalism and Literature | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction: Minor Writing and the Capital Reader | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | The Horrid Laws of Political Economy | 21 |
| Ch. 3 | Fables of Circulation: Poe's influence on the Messenger | 58 |
| Ch. 4 | Poe and the Masses | 76 |
| Pt. 2 | Race and Region | 109 |
| Ch. 5 | Average Racism: Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism | 111 |
| Ch. 6 | Subtle Barbarians: The Southern Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe | 147 |
| Pt. 3 | Mass Culture | 193 |
| Ch. 7 | The Code for Gold: Poe and Cryptography | 195 |
| Ch. 8 | Culture of Surfaces | 225 |
| Ch. 9 | The Investigating Angel: Poe, Babbage, and "The Power of Words" | 249 |
| Notes | 275 |
| Index | 323 |
