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A Companion to Poe Studies
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Eric W. Carlson
Book Code: CCZ/
ISBN: 0-313-26506-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-26506-8
624 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/1996
List Price: $165.00 (UK Sterling Price: £95.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This volume is extraordinarily useful and valuable. It must be available to every serious student of the many sides of Edgar Allan Poe.
    —Journal of American Culture
  • The tone of the volume as a whole is that of the responsible critical/historical scholar who has taken into account the intricacies of literary influence, textual genesis, biographical detail, and extant documentation in order to arrive at sound conclusion....The amount of factual information gleaned by the reader seeking to become familiar with what we know of Poe is rewarded repeatedly by each essay.
    —Extrapolation
  • This reference companion...is a valuable guide to the scholarship and criticism that the enormous interest in Poe's life and work has generated, especially during the last fifty years.
    —Nineteenth-Century Literature
Description: Best known as the author of poems such as "The Raven" and short stories such as The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe is now firmly established as one of the most significant 19th-century American writers. Since 1845, when his work was recognized in France by Baudelaire, his critical reception has endured a history of fluctuation and controversy. During the last 50 years, research on Poe has grown so much that it now rivals or possibly exceeds the renaissance of interest in Emerson, Melville, and Henry James. His work has been adapted for popular consumption through several films; and early editions of his works, printed in small quantities, continue to command high prices. This reference companion, the third in a series with others on Melville and Henry James, is a guide to the tremendous amount of scholarship Poe has generated. Through chapters written by expert contributors, this volume reviews and represents Poe biography, criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, and influence. The first section of the book includes chapters on Poe's life and discusses the problems confronting Poe's biographers. The second section primarily offers textual criticism of his individual works, while the third and fourth sections treat broad topics related to his philosophical views and aesthetic theory. The fifth section consists of chapters on the legacy of Poe as a world author and his lasting influence on literature, popular culture, and fine arts. Chapters include extensive documentation, and a bibliography at the end of the volume lists the most significant resources for the study of Poe.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Poe's Life and Times
  • The Poe Legend by Ian Walker
  • Modern Biographies by Alexander Hammond
  • Poe's Writings
  • The Poems: 1824-1835 by Elizabeth Phillips
  • The Poems: 1836-1849 by Dwayne Thorpe
  • The Tales of 1831-1835 by Richard P. Benton
  • Other Comic Satires and Grotesques, 1836-1849 by Stuart and Susan Levine
  • Tales of the Human Condition by William Goldhurst
  • Tales of Psychal Conflict: "Berenice," "Morella," "Ligeia" by Eric W. Carlson
  • Tales of Psychal Conflict: "William Wilson," "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Eric W. Carlson
  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840) by Grace Farrell
  • Moods of Mind: The Tales of Detection, Crime, and Punishment by Thomas Joswick
  • Science Fiction and the Landscape Sketches by David E.E. Sloane and Michael Pettengell
  • The Essays and the "Marginalia" by Beverly Voloshin
  • The Reviews: The Evolution of a Critic by James Hutchisson
  • Eureka: A Prose Poem: Poe's "Novel Universe" by Barbara Cantalupo
  • Poe's Thought
  • Poe's Materialistic Metaphysics of Man by Kenneth Hovey
  • "Strange Alchemy of Brain": Poe and Alchemy by Randall Clack
  • Feminist "Re-Visionings" of the Tales of Women by Paula Kot
  • Poe and Postmodernism by David B. Hirsch
  • Poe's Art
  • Poe's Aesthetics by David Halliburton
  • Language and Style in Poe's Prose by Donald Barlow Stauffer
  • Poe's Influence
  • Poe in Literature and Popular Culture by John E. Reilly
  • Poe in Art, Music, Opera, and Dance by Burton P. Pollin
  • Edgar Allan Poe: A Writer for the World by Lois Vines
  • Poe and the World of Books by George Egon Hatvary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 95-40034
LCC Class: PS2631
Dewey Class: 818
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