Edgar Allan Poe in Context

By: Kevin J. Hayes (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 December 2012

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Edgar Allan Poe mastered a variety of literary forms over the course of his brief and turbulent career. As a storyteller, Poe defied convention by creating Gothic tales of mystery, horror, and suspense that remain widely popular today. This collection demonstrates how Poe's experience of early nineteenth-century American life fueled his iconoclasm and shaped his literary legacy. Rather than provide critical explications of his writings, each essay explores one aspect of Poe's immediate environment, using pertinent writings - verse, fiction, reviews, and essays - to suit. Examining his geographical, social, and literary contexts, as well as those created by the publishing industry and advances in science and technology, the essays paint an unprecedented portrait of Poe's life and times. Written for a wide audience, the collection will offer scholars and students of American literature, historians, and general readers new insight into Poe's rich and complex work.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Geographical Contexts
Great Britain
The south
The American west
The sea
France
The Near East
The polar regions
Social Contexts
The urban environment
Curiosity
Alcohol, addiction, and rehabilitation
Fashion, furnishings, and style
The American stage
Lions and bluestockings
Slavery and abolitionism
The cult of mourning
The Contexts of Publishing
The literary profession
Magazines
Gift books
Literary piracy
The art of reviewing
The politics of publishing
Literary Contexts
Ancient classics
Rabelais and Lesage
The Gothic movement
Byron
Folk narrative
Transcendentalism
Charles Dickens
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the art of the tale
Scientific and Pseudoscientific Contexts
Phrenology
Photography
Mesmerism
Architecture
Fiction science
Cosmology and cosmogony
Forensic science
Technology
Further reading
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