Format:
Online Ressource (vi, 247 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780199728138
,
0199728135
,
9780195121490
,
019512149X
,
9780195121506
,
0195121503
,
1423757653
,
9781423757658
Series Statement:
Historical guides to American authors
Content:
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literarynationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the ""republic of letters"" in the United States. This Historical Guide contains an introduction that considers the tensions between Poe's ""otherworldly"" settings and hishistorically
Content:
Introduction: Poe in our time / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849: a brief biography / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Poe and the American publishing industry / Terence Whalen -- Spanking the master: mind-body crossings in Poe's sensationalism / David Leverenz -- Poe and nineteenth-century gender constructions / Leland S. Person -- Poe and the issue of American privacy / Louis A. Renza -- Illustrated chronology -- Bibliographical essay: major editions and landmarks of Poe scholarship / Scott Peeples.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-231) and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
9780195121490
Additional Edition:
019512149X
Additional Edition:
9780195121506
Additional Edition:
0195121503
Additional Edition:
9786610529964
Additional Edition:
6610529965
Additional Edition:
019512149X
Additional Edition:
0195121503
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Historical guide to Edgar Allan Poe Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
Language:
English
Keywords:
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