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Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

By Poe, Edgar Allan

Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe book

Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe‰۪s works, with their gothic and often obsessive themes, have had a significant influence on American literature.In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. ‰ÛÏBackgrounds and Contexts‰Û includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe‰۪s prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery. Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe‰۪s poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Release Date:
1956-01-02
Publication Date:
1956-01-02
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin (Academic)
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
039505110X
Weight:
522 g
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