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Edgar Allan Poe
Beyond Gothicism
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2011
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Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. Recent scholarship has linked Poe's imaginative writings to the historical realities of nineteenth-century America, including to science and technology, wars and politics, the cult of death and bereavement, and, most controversially, to slavery and stereotyped attitudes toward women. Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism presents a systematic approach to topical criticism of Poe, revealing a new portrait of Poe as an author who blended topics of intellectual and social importance and returned repeatedly to these ideas in different works and using different aesthetic strategies during his brief but highly productive career. Twelve essays point readers toward new ways of considering Poe's themes, techniques, and aesthetic preoccupations by looking at Poe in the context of landscapes, domestic interiors, slavery, prosody, Eastern cultures, optical sciences, Gothicism, and literary competitions, clubs, and reviewing.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61149-068-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-61149-069-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
209
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Poe’s “Philosophy of Furniture” and the Aesthetics of Fictional Design No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter Two: Race, Pirates, and Intellect: A Reading of Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” No access Pages 17 - 36
Chapter Three: Storytelling, Narrative Authority, and Death in “The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade” No access Pages 37 - 48
Chapter Four: The Man in the Text: Desire, Masculinity, and the Development of Poe’s Detective Fiction No access Pages 49 - 68
Chapter Five: Gothic Displacements: Poe’s South in Politian No access Pages 69 - 88
Chapter Six: Poe in the Ragged Mountains: Environmental History and Romantic Aesthetics No access Pages 89 - 102
Chapter Seven: “King Pest” and the Tales of the Folio Club No access Pages 103 - 118
Chapter Eight: Understanding “Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling” No access Pages 119 - 128
Chapter Nine: “Eyes Which Behold”: Poe’s “Domain of Arnheim” and the Science of Vision No access Pages 129 - 148
Chapter Ten: “A Species of Literature Almost Beneath Contempt”: Edgar Allan Poe and the World of Literary Competitions No access Pages 149 - 166
Chapter Eleven: Poe’s Early Criticism of American Fiction: The Southern Literary Messenger and the Fiction of Robert Montgomery Bird No access Pages 167 - 180
Chapter Twelve: Mad Ravings or Sound Thinking?: “The Philosophy of Composition” and Poe’s Parodic Raven No access Pages 181 - 194
