Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-234) and indexes.

Preface to the series -- Preface to the volume -- Part One: Materials / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale -- Courses and texts -- Readings for students -- Readings for teachers -- Aids to teaching -- Part Two: Approaches -- Introduction / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale -- Literary, cultural and historical contexts -- Teaching Poe the magazinist / Scott Peeples -- Poe the crime writer: historicizing "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Leonard Cassuto -- "Legitimate sources" and "legitimate results": surveying the social terror of "Usher" and "Ligeia" / Duncan Faherty -- "Some words with a mummy": teaching satire and the democratic threat in Poe's fiction / Edward Wesp -- Teaching the mechanics of deception: "Hans Pfall", science fiction, and hoaxing in antebellum print culture / Marcy J. Dinius -- What difference does it make? Pym, plagiarism, and pop culture / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Understanding the fear and love of death in three premature-burial stories: "The Premature Burial," "Morella," and "The fall of the House of Usher" / Desir�ee Henderson -- Teaching Poe's "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" as elegies / Philip Edward Phillips -- Mourning and eve(ning): teaching Poe's poetry / Benjamin F. Fisher -- Rectangular obscenities: Poe, taste, and entertainment / Stephen Rachman -- Theoretical contexts -- A new-historicist approach to teaching "The Black Cat" / Lesley Ginsberg -- Reader response and the interpretation of "Hop-Frog," "How to Write a Blackwood Article," and "The Tell-Tale Heart" / Brian Yothers -- Teaching "The Purloined Letter" and Lacan's Seminar: introducing students to psychoanalysis through Poe / Diane Long Hoeveler -- The linguistic turn, first-person experience, and the terror of relevativism: "The Purloined Letter" and the affective limits of ratiocination / A. Samuel Kimball -- The "visionary" project: Poe and the textual condition / Derek Furr -- Teaching Poe's ironic approach to German learners of English: the didactic complexities of "The Cask of Amontillado" / Erik Redling -- Classroom contexts -- The Red Death's sway: teaching Poe and Stephen King in the American literature classroom / Tony Magistrale -- Teaching Pym in a survey of American literature / James R. Britton -- Trust thyself? Teaching Poe's murder tales in the context of transcendental self-reliance / Paul Christian Jones -- Loving with a love that is more than love: Poe, the American dream, and the secondary school classroom / Alison M. Kelly -- Poe, literary theory, and the English education course / Donelle Ruwe -- Teaching Poe in the disability studies classroom: "The Man That Was Used Up" / William Etter -- Rediscovering Poe through the eyes of world authors: what do they see in him? / Lois Davis Vines -- Teaching Poe's influence on Hitchcock: the example of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Psycho / Dennis R. Perry -- Poe in the comics / M. Thomas Inge -- From page to stage: an interdisciplinary approach to teaching "The Philosophy of Composition" through performing "The Raven" / Rebecca Jaroff and Domenick Scudera.

Contains essays that discuss different techniques that teachers can use to aid students to better understand the work of Edgar Allan Poe.