Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-231) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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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.
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Title
Historical guide to Edgar Allan Poe.
International Standard Book Number
0195121503
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849-- Criticism and interpretation
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849-- Criticism and interpretation.
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century, Handbooks, manuals, etc.