The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

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Kevin J. Hayes
Cambridge University Press, 25 apr 2002 - 266 pagina's
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

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Chronology of Poes life
xv
List of short titles and abbreviations
xx
Introduction
1
The poet as critic
7
Poe and his circle
21
Poes aesthetic theory
42
Poes humor
57
Poe and the Gothic tradition
72
Poes Dupin and the power of detection
133
Poes feminine ideal
148
A confused beginning The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
163
Poes constructiveness and The Fall of the House of Usher
178
Two verse masterworks The Raven and Ulalume
191
Poe and popular culture
205
Oneman modernist
225
Select bibliography
241

Poe sensationalism and slavery
92
Extra Extra Poe invents science fiction
113

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Kevin J. Hayes is Professor of English, University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of Poe and the Printed Word (Cambridge, 2000); Melville's Folk Roots (1999); The Library of William Byrd of Westover (1997), for which he won the first annual Virginia Library History Award; Folklore and Book Culture (1997); and A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf (1996). In addition, he has edited Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge, 1996). His essays and reviews have appeared in American Literature, Edgar Allan Poe Review, Literature/Film Quarterly, New England Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, and Visible Language. In 1998, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Documentary Editing.

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