In “King Pest,” Poe’s understudied story contains a broader critique of the self-serving and autocratic governmental tendencies that Jackson had come to embody in the eyes of his opponents.
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen is a lecturer in English-language literature and culture at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His interests lie in the history and development of the popular-culture genres Gothic, Horror and Science Fiction, on which he has published numerous articles. He is currently researching the first history of Dutch-language Science Fiction.
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