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Poe and women : recognition and revision / edited by Amy Branam Armiento, Travis Montgomery.
Van Pelt Library PS2642.W6 P64 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation.
- Poe, Edgar Allan.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Characters--Women.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Friends and associates.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
- Women in literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Friendship.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- History.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]
- Summary:
- "Poe and Women presents essays by scholars who investigate the various ways in which women--Poe's female contemporaries, critics, writers, and artists, as well as women characters in Poe adaptations--have shaped Edgar Allan Poe's reputation and revised his depictions of gender"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I RECOGNITION
- ch. One "The Vast Pantheon of Speculation": Edgar Allan Poe and His Women Biographers / Sandra Tome
- ch. Two Spiritual Dialogues: Lydia Maria Child, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Politics of Unity / Adam C. Bradford
- ch. Three Fifty Years of Women's Scholarship on Poe / Amy Branam Armiento
- ch. Four Transnational Poe and Women Scholars Abroad / Clara Petino
- pt. II REVISION
- ch. Five "Can You See Me?": Poe's Female Characters and the Struggle for Self-Definition on Film / Alexandra Reuber
- ch. Six "And She Grew Strangely": Poe, Women, and Comics / John Edward Martin
- ch. Seven "Sort of E. A. Poeish": Edgar Allan Poe and Female Pulp Writers / Kevin Knott
- ch. Eight Traces of Poe's House of Usher in the Work of Contemporary Women Horror Writers / Melanie R. Anderson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Poe and women
- ISBN:
- 9781611463354
- 1611463351
- OCLC:
- 1345613822
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