Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of Edgar Allan Poe / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples ; editorial assistant, Caleb Doan.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kennedy, J. Gerald
• Peeples, Scott
• Doan, Caleb.

Description

xviii, 860 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford Handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe
• Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects

• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Handbooks and manuals
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Handbooks and manuals.

Note

• Series statement from book jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : The unfolding investigation of Edgar Poe / J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples -- An orphan's life : 1809-1831 / James M. Hutchisson -- A life in print : 1831-1849 / Scott Peeples -- Poe : a life in letters / Lesley Ginsberg -- Poe's lives / Richard Kopley -- Orientalism in Poe's early poetry / John Carlos Rowe -- Echoes of "The Raven" : unoriginality in Poe's verse / Michael C. Cohen -- Poe's common meter / Virginia Jackson -- Early experiments in genre : imitations, burlesques, satires / Alexander Hammond -- The perversity of public opinion in Poe's later satires and hoaxes / Stacey Margolis -- Undead wives and undone husbands : Poe's tales of marriage / Ellen Weinauer -- Solving mysteries in Poe, or trying to / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Deciphering Dupin : Poe's ratiocinative plots / Kelly Ross -- The calculus of probabilities : contingency in "The mystery of Marie Rogêt / Valerie Rohy -- Counterparts : Poe's doubles from "William Wilson" to "The Cask of Amontillado" / Paul Christian Jones -- Outing the perverse : Poe's false confessionals / Leland S. Person -- Poe's survival stories as dying colonialisms / Matt Sandler -- Poe's landscapes, picturesque and ideal / Kent P. Ljungquist -- Undying enigmas in "Ligeia" / Alexandra Urakova -- "The fall of the house of Usher" and the architecture of unreliability / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet -- Genre, science, and "Hans Pfaall" / Maurice S. Lee / Rude representation : orienting the American frontier through the characters in Pym's Chasm / Jacob Rama Berman -- Pym and unreadability / Cindy Weinstein -- Poe's novel explorations / Lauren Coats -- Conversations on the body and the soul : transcending death in the angelic dialogues and "mesmeric revelation" / Bruce Mills -- Making sense of Eureka / Laura Saltz -- Poe the critic : the aesthetics of the "tomahawk" review / Paul Hurh -- The marginal center : "pinakidia," marginalia," and "fifty suggestions" / Stephen Rachman -- Poe the magazinist / Philip Edward Phillips -- Poe's cultural inheritance : literary touchstones and the cultivation of erudition / William E. Engel -- Ancestral piles : Poe's Gothic materials / Sean Moreland -- Kindred contemporaries : Lippard, Bird, Simms, Hawthorne, and Irving / Carl Ostrowski -- Edgar Allan Poe and his enemies / Sandra Tomc -- Bluestockings and bohemians / Edward Whitley -- Poe and his global advocates / Emron Esplin -- Poe and modern(ist) poetry : an impure legacy / Margarida Vale de Gato -- An unrequited obsession : Poe and modern horror / W. Scott Poole -- Dupin's descendants in print and on screen / John Gruesser -- Poe's visual legacy / Barbara Cantalupo -- Poe and the avant-garde / Jonathan Elmer -- Postmodern Poe / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Poe and science fiction / Paul Grimstad -- Poe and the sciences of the brain / Paul Gilmore -- Temporal effects : trauma, Margaret Fuller, and "graphicality" in Poe / Christina Zwarg -- Unqualified pleasure : Poe on forms of life / Branka Arsić -- Poe's terror analytics / J. Gerald Kennedy.

Call Number

JFF 19-1842

ISBN

• 9780190641870
• 0190641878

LCCN

2018019391

OCLC

1032291564

Title

The Oxford handbook of Edgar Allan Poe / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples ; editorial assistant, Caleb Doan.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford Handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kennedy, J. Gerald, editor.

Peeples, Scott, editor.

Doan, Caleb.

Research Call Number

JFF 19-1842