Poe and place / Philip Edward Phillips, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Philip Edward, editor.

Series:

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Homes and haunts.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Settings.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Geography in literature.

Homes.

Setting (Literature).

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of 'place' in the life, works, and afterlife of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849). Poe and Place argues that 'place' is an important critical category through which to understand this classic American author in new and interesting ways. The geographical 'places' examined include the cities in which Poe lived and worked, specific locales included in his fictional works, imaginary places featured in his writings, physical and imaginary places and spaces from which he departed and those to which he sought to return, places he claimed to have gone, and places that have embraced him as their own. The geo-critical and geo-spatial perspectives in the collection offer fresh readings of Poe and provide readers new vantage points from which to approach Poe's life, literary works, aesthetic concerns, and cultural afterlife.

Contents:

"No Direction Home": The Itinerant Life of Edgar Poe / Scott Peeples

Poe and Boston / Katherine J. Kim

Poe's Richmond and Richmond's Poe / Christopher P. Semtner

The Realm of Dream and Memory: Poe's England / Gerald Kennedy

Poe and Baltimore: Crossroads and Redemption / Jeffrey A. Savoye

Poe in Philadelphia / Amy Branam Armiento

Outside Looking In: Edgar Allan Poe and New York City / John Gruesser

Fantastic Places, Angelic Spaces / William E. Engel

Re-ordering Place in Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym / Richard Kopley

Poe's German Soulscape: Influenced by Angst or Anxiety of Influence? / Sonya Isaak

"Demon of Space": Poe in St. Petersburg / Alexandra Urakova

Poe, Egypt, and "Egyptomania" / Emily James Hansen

Poe, Paris, and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" / Philip Edward Phillips and George Poe

"Un muerto vivo": Poe and Argentina / Emron Esplin

"Finding His Way Home": Tracing Poe's Solutions in Eureka / Harry Lee Poe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319967875

3319967878

OCLC:

1042080656