Research Catalog

Title

Poe and place / Philip Edward Phillips, editor.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Phillips, Philip Edward

Description

xlvii, 402 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of 'place' in the life, works, and afterlife of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849). Poe and Place argues that 'place' is an important critical category through which to understand this classic American author in new and interesting ways. The geographical 'places' examined include the cities in which Poe lived and worked, specific locales included in his fictional works, imaginary places featured in his writings, physical and imaginary places and spaces from which he departed and those to which he sought to return, places he claimed to have gone, and places that have embraced him as their own. The geo-critical and geo-spatial perspectives in the collection offer fresh readings of Poe and provide readers new vantage points from which to approach Poe's life, literary works, aesthetic concerns, and cultural afterlife.

Series Statement

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

Uniform Title

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.

Subjects

• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation
• Setting (Literature)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 > Homes and haunts
• Geography in literature
• Place (Philosophy) in literature
• Homes
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 > Settings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"No Direction Home": The Itinerant Life of Edgar Poe / Scott Peeples -- Poe and Boston / Katherine J. Kim -- Poe's Richmond and Richmond's Poe / Christopher P. Semtner -- The Realm of Dream and Memory: Poe's England / Gerald Kennedy -- Poe and Baltimore: Crossroads and Redemption / Jeffrey A. Savoye -- Poe in Philadelphia / Amy Branam Armiento -- Outside Looking In: Edgar Allan Poe and New York City / John Gruesser -- Fantastic Places, Angelic Spaces / William E. Engel -- Re-ordering Place in Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym / Richard Kopley -- Poe's German Soulscape: Influenced by Angst or Anxiety of Influence? / Sonya Isaak -- "Demon of Space": Poe in St. Petersburg / Alexandra Urakova -- Poe, Egypt, and "Egyptomania" / Emily James Hansen -- Poe, Paris, and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" / Philip Edward Phillips and George Poe -- "Un muerto vivo": Poe and Argentina / Emron Esplin -- "Finding His Way Home": Tracing Poe's Solutions in Eureka / Harry Lee Poe.

Call Number

JFD 19-2485

ISBN

• 9783319967875
• 3319967878

LCCN

2018951030

OCLC

1042080656

Title

Poe and place / Philip Edward Phillips, editor.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Phillips, Philip Edward, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-2485