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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. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. 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.
Edited by leading experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a sweeping reexamination of Poe's work. Forty-five distinguished scholars address Poe's troubled life and checkered career as a "magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays, opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into Poe's lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics, and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe, science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations of readers and scholars.
Contents
Abbreviations of Poe's Works
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Unfolding Investigation of Edgar Allan Poe
J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples
1. An Orphan's Life: 1809-1831
James M. Hutchisson
2. A Life in Print: 1831-1849
Scott Peeples
3. Poe: A Life in Letters
Lesley Ginsberg
4. Poe's Lives
Richard Kopley
5. Orientalism in Poe's Early Poetry
John Carlos Rowe
6. Echoes of the "Raven": Unoriginality in Poe's Verse
Michael C. Cohen
7. Poe's Common Meter
Virginia Jackson
8. Early Experiments in Genre: Imitations, Burlesques, Satires
Alexander Hammond
9. The Perversity of Public Opinion in Poe's Later Satires and Hoaxes
Stacey Margolis
10. Undead Wives and Undone Husbands: Poe's Tales of Marriage
Ellen Weinauer
11. Solving Mysteries in Poe, or Trying To
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
12. Deciphering Dupin: Poe's Ratiocinative Plots
Kelly Ross
13. The Calculus of Probabilities: Contingency in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"
Valerie Rohy
14. Counterparts: Poe's Doubles from "William Wilson" to "The Cask of Amontillado"
Paul Christian Jones
15. Outing the Perverse: Poe's False Confessionals
Leland S. Person
16. Poe's Survival Stories as Dying Colonialisms
Matt Sandler
17. Poe's Landscapes, Picturesque and Ideal
Kent P. Ljungquist
18. Undying Enigmas in "Ligeia"
Alexandra Urakova
19. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and the Architecture of Unreliability
Agnieska Soltysik Monnet
20. Genre, Science, and "Hans Pfaall"
Maurice S. Lee
21. Rude Representation: Orienting the American Frontier Through the Characters in Pym's Chasm
Jacob Berman
22. Pym and Unreadability
Cindy Weinstein
23. Poe's Novel Explorations
Lauren Coats
24. Conversations on the Body and the Soul: Transcending Death in the Angelic Dialogues and "Mesmeric Revelation"
Bruce Mills
25. Making Sense of Eureka
Laura Saltz
26. Poe the Critic: The Aesthetics of the "Tomahawk" Review
Paul Hurh
27. The Marginal Center: "Pinakidia," "Marginalia," and "Fifty Suggestions"
Stephen Rachman
28. Poe the Magazinist
Philip Edward Phillips
29. Poe's Cultural Inheritance: Literary Touchstones and the Cultivation of Erudition
William E. Engel
30. Ancestral Piles: Poe's Gothic Materials
Sean Moreland
31. Kindred Contemporaries: Lippard, Bird, Simms, Hawthorne, and Irving
Carl Ostrowski
32. Edgar Allan Poe and His Enemies
Sandra Tomc
33. Bluestockings and Bohemians
Edward Whitley
34. Poe and His Global Advocates
Emron Esplin
35. Poe and Modern(ist) Poetry: An Impure Legacy
Margarida Vale de Gato
36. An Unrequited Obsession: Poe and Modern Horror
W. Scott Poole
37. Dupin's Descendants in Print and on Screen
John Gruesser
38. Poe's Visual Legacy
Barbara Cantalupo
39. Poe and the Avant-Garde
Jonathan Elmer
40. Postmodern Poe
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
41. Poe and Science Fiction
Paul Grimstad
42. Poe and the Sciences of the Brain
Paul Gilmore
43. Temporal Effects: Trauma, Margaret Fuller, and "Graphicality" in Poe
Christina Zwarg
44. Unqualified Pleasure: Poe on Forms of Life
Branka Arsi'c
45. Poe's Terror Analytics
J. Gerald Kennedy
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