The Cambridge companion to Edgar Allan Poe /

The Cambridge companion to Edgar Allan Poe / edited by Kevin J. Hayes. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. - xx, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to literature .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.

The poet as critic / Kent Ljungquist -- Poe and his circle / Sandra M. Tomc -- Poe's aesthetic theory / Rachel Polonsky -- Poe's humor / Daniel Royot -- Poe and the Gothic tradition / Benjamin Franklin Fisher -- Poe, sensationalism, and slavery / Teresa A. Goddu -- Extra! Extra! Poe invents science fiction! / John Tresch -- Poe's Dupin and the power of detection / Peter Thoms -- Poe's feminine ideal / Karen Weekes -- A confused beginning: The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket / Geoffrey Sanborn -- Poe's "constructiveness" and "The fall of the house of Usher" / Scott Peeples -- Two verse masterworks: "The raven" and "Ulalume" / Richard Kopley and Kevin J. Hayes -- Poe and popular culture / Mark Neimeyer -- One-man modernist / Kevin J. Hayes.

0521793262 (hbk.) 0521797276 (pbk.)

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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Criticism and interpretation.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Critique et interprt� ation.

PS2638 / .C33 2002