A Historical Guide To Edgar Allan Poe
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A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
Author | : J. Gerald Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199728138 |
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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 literary nationalism; 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 his historically marked representations of violence, as well as a capsule biography situating Poe in his historical context. The subsequent essays in this book cover such topics as Poe and the American Publishing Industry, Poe's Sensationalism, his relationships to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy. The volume also includes a bibliographic essay, a chronology of Poe's life, a bibliography, illustrations, and an index.
A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
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Author | : J. Gerald Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1074495022 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allen Poe
Author | : J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 881 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780190641870 |
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No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a sweeping reexamination of Poe's work. Forty-five distinguished scholars address Poe's troubled life and checkered career as a "magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays, opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into Poe's lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics, and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe, science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations of readers and scholars.
Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Author | : Dawn B. Sova |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781438108421 |
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Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.
A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe s Purloined Letter
Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publsiher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781410356055 |
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A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
A Historical Guide to Henry James
Author | : John Carlos Rowe,Eric Haralson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195121353 |
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An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.
A Historical Guide to James Baldwin
Author | : Douglas Field |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-09-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019971066X |
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With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that includes short stories, novels, and polemical essays, this collection reflects the major events that left an indelible imprint on the iconic writer: civil rights, black nationalism and the struggle for gay rights in the pre- and post-Stonewall eras. The essays also highlight Baldwin's under-studied role as a trans-Atlantic writer, his lifelong struggle with faith, and his use of music, especially the blues, as a key to unlock the mysteries of his identity as an exile, an artist, and a black American in a racially hostile era.
A Historical Guide to Herman Melville
Author | : Giles B. Gunn |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195142822 |
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Essays on Melville's life & writing here make the case for his centrality both to 19th century writing in America & also to America's understanding of itself.