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Edgar Allan Poe : a life / Richard Kopley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kopley, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
- Poe, Edgar Allan.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 714 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Written by one of the world's leading experts on the life and literature of Edgar Allan Poe, this biography is a rich and rewarding study for the general reader as well as for the seasoned scholar. Richard Kopley combines a biographical narrative of Poe's enduring challenges-including his difficult foster father, his personal losses, his great struggles with depression and alcoholism, and the poverty that dogged his existence-with close readings of his work that focus not only on plot, character, and theme but also on language, allusion, and structure in a way that enhances our understanding of both. While incorporating past Poe scholarship, this volume also relates unknown stories of Poe culled from privately held letters unavailable to previous biographers, presenting a range of groundbreaking archival discoveries that illuminates the man and his oeuvre in ways never before possible"-- Provided by publisher.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 15, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kopley, Richard. Edgar Allan Poe
- ISBN:
- 9780813952246
- 0813952247
- Publisher Number:
- 40032611070
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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