The Oxford handbook of Edgar Allan Poe / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, J. Gerald, editor.

Peeples, Scott, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Monthly, 2018-2019

Other Title:

Edgar Allan Poe

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2018-2019.

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text file

Summary:

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement.

Contents:

An Orphan's Life: 1809-1831 / James M. Hutchisson

Undead Wives and Undone Husbands: Poe's Tales of Marriage / Ellen Weinauer

Solving Mysteries in Poe, or Trying To / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

Deciphering Dupin: Poe's Ratiocinative Plots / Kelly Ross

The Calculus of Probabilities: Contingency in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" / Valerie Rohy

Counterparts: Poe's Doubles from “William Wilson” to “The Cask of Amontillado” / Paul Christian Jones

Outing the Perverse: Poe's False Confessionals / Leland S. Person

Poe's Survival Stories as Dying Colonialisms / Matt Sandler

Poe's Landscapes, Picturesque and Ideal / Kent P. Ljungquist

Undying Enigmas in 'Ligeia' / Alexandra Urakova

"The Fall of the House of Usher" and the Architecture of Unreliability / Agnieska Soltysik Monnet

A Life in Print: 1831-1849 / Scott Peeples

Genre, Science, and 'Hans Pfaall' / Maurice S. Lee

Rude Representation: Orienting the American Frontier Through the Characters in Pym's Chasm / Jacob Rama Berman

Pym and Unreadability / Cindy Weinstein

Poe's Novel Explorations / Lauren Coats

Conversations on the Body and the Soul: Transcending Death in the Angelic Dialogues and “Mesmeric Revelation” / Bruce Mills

Making Sense of Eureka / Laura Saltz

Poe the Critic: The Aesthetics of the “Tomahawk” Review / Paul Hurh

The Marginal Center: “Pinakidia,” / Stephen Rachman

Poe the Magazinist / Philip Edward Phillips

Poe's Cultural Inheritance: Literary Touchstones and the Cultivation of Erudition / William E. Engel

Poe: A Life in Letters / Lesley Ginsberg

Ancestral Piles: Poe's Gothic Materials / Sean Moreland

Kindred Contemporaries: Lippard, Bird, Simms, Hawthorne, and Irving / Carl Ostrowski

Edgar Allan Poe and His Enemies / Sandra Tomc

Bluestockings and Bohemians / Edward Whitley

Poe and His Global Advocates / Emron Esplin

Poe and Modern(ist) Poetry: An Impure Legacy / Margarida Vale de Gato

An Unrequited Obsession: Poe and Modern Horror / W. Scott Poole

Dupin's Descendants in Print and on Screen / John Gruesser

Poe's Visual Legacy / Barbara Cantalupo

Poe and the Avant-Garde / Jonathan Elmer

Poe's Lives / Richard Kopley

Postmodern Poe / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Poe and the Sciences of the Brain / Paul Gilmore

Temporal Effects: Trauma, Margaret Fuller, and / Christina Zwarg

Unqualified Pleasure: Poe on Forms of Life / Branka Arsić

Poe's Terror Analytics / J. Gerald Kennedy

Poe and Science Fiction / Paul Grimstad

Introduction: The Unfolding Investigation of Edgar Poe / J. Gerald Kennedy, Scott Peeples

Orientalism in Poe's Early Poetry / John Carlos Rowe

Echoes of the Raven: Unoriginality in Poe's Verse / Michael C. Cohen

Poe's Common Meter / Virginia Jackson

Early Experiments in Genre: Imitations, Burlesques, Satires / Alexander Hammond

The Perversity of Public Opinion in Poe's Later Satires and Hoaxes / Stacey Margolis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780190641894

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