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Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationThe Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeThis collection of specially commissioned essays by experts in the field exploreskey dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe’s work and life. Contributions providea series of new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversialAmerican writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates,examine all of Poe’s major writings, his poetry, short stories, and criticism,and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural, and political contexts.They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing:humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, andsentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative ofArthur Gordon Pym, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven,” and“Ulalume.” The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensiveguide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike. Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

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Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationTHE CAMBRIDGECOMPANION TOEDGAR ALLAN POEEDITED BYKEVIN J. HAYES Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationpublished by the press syndicate of the university of cambridgeThe Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdomcambridge university pressThe Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK40 West 20th Street, New York, ny 10011-4211, USA477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, AustraliaRuiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, SpainDock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africahttp://www.cambridge.org CCambridge University Press 2002This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exceptionand to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements,no reproduction of any part may take place withoutthe written permission of Cambridge University Press.First published 2002Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, CambridgeTypeface Sabon 10/13 pt.System LATEX 2ε [TB]A catalogue record for this book is available from the British LibraryISBN 0 521 79326 2 hardbackISBN 0 521 79727 6 paperback Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationFor Myung-Sook Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationCONTENTSList of illustrationsList of contributorsChronology of Poe’s lifeList of short titles and abbreviationspage xixiixvxxIntroductionkevin j. hayes11 The poet as critickent ljungquist72 Poe and his circlesandra m. tomc213 Poe’s aesthetic theoryrachel polonsky424 Poe’s humordaniel royot575 Poe and the Gothic traditionbenjamin franklin fisher726 Poe, sensationalism, and slaveryteresa a. goddu927 Extra! Extra! Poe invents science fiction!john tresch113ix Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationcontents8 Poe’s Dupin and the power of detectionpeter thoms1339 Poe’s feminine idealkaren weekes14810 A confused beginning: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,of Nantucketgeoffrey sanborn16311178Poe’s “constructiveness” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”scott peeples12 Two verse masterworks: “The Raven” and “Ulalume”richard kopley and kevin j. hayes19113 Poe and popular culturemark neimeyer20514 One-man modernistkevin j. hayes225Select bibliographyIndex241247x Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS11.1A diagram of the opening sentence of “The Fall of theHouse of Usher.” Prepared by Scott Peeples andMyung-Sook Hayes.page 18114.1 Edouard Manet, At the Window, plate 3 fromLe Corbeau, 1875. Courtesy of the Harry RansomHumanities Research Center, Austin, Texas.22814.2 Odile Redon, The Tell-Tale Heart, 1883. Santa BarbaraMuseum of Art, Museum Purchase.23014.3 Alfred Kubin, The Man of the Crowd. From Das Feuerpferdund andere Novellen (München, G. Müller, 1910).234xi Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationCONTRIBUTORSbenjamin franklin fisher, Professor of English at the University ofMississippi, currently serves on the editorial board of Poe Studies, is anHonorary Member and past president of the Poe Studies Association, anda Life Member and Chairman of the Speaker Series in the Edgar Allan PoeSociety of Baltimore. In 1993 he was awarded a Governor’s Citation, State ofMaryland, for his outstanding contributions to Poe studies. He has publishedwidely on Victorian literature and on the Gothic tradition. A member of theExecutive Committee in the International Gothic Association, he also serveson the editorial boards of multiple scholarly journals in the field.teresa a. goddu, Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University,is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (1997).Her essays and reviews have appeared in American Literary History, SouthAtlantic Quarterly, and Studies in the Novel. She is currently writing a bookon anti-slavery literature.kevin j. hayes, Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma,has, among other books, written A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf (1996);Folklore and Book Culture (1997); The Library of William Byrd of Westover(1997), for which he won the first annual Virginia Library History Award;Melville’s Folk Roots (1999); and Poe and the Printed Word (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2000). In addition, he has edited previous collections of critical essays including Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews (CambridgeUniversity Press, 1996).richard kopley, Associate Professor of English at Penn State DuBois andHead of the Division of English for Penn State’s Commonwealth College, isPresident of the Poe Studies Association. He is editor of Poe’s Pym: CriticalExplorations (1992), Prospects for the Study of American Literature: AGuide for Scholars and Students (1997), and The Narrative of ArthurGordon Pym (1999); co-editor of the journal, Resources for Americanxii Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationlist of contributorsLiterary Study; and author of Edgar Allan Poe and The PhiladelphiaSaturday News (1991). He has recently completed a book-length study ofthe origins of The Scarlet Letter.kent ljungquist, Paris Fletcher Professor of Humanities at WorcesterPolytechnic Institute, is the author of The Grand and the Fair: Poe’s Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques (1984), editor of NineteenthCentury American Fiction Writers (1999) and The Facts on File Bibliographyof American Fiction to 1865 (1994), and co-editor of James FenimoreCooper’s The Deerslayer (1987). An Honorary Member of the Poe StudiesAssociation and a Member of the American Antiquarian Society, he has alsopublished essays on Poe, Cooper, Melville, and Thoreau.mark neimeyer, Maı̂tre de Conférences at the Université de ParisSorbonne (Paris IV), has published extensively on American literature andculture. His essays and reviews have appeared in Journal of American Studiesand Revue Française d’Etudes Americaines. Currently, he is Associate Editorof the French Pléiade edition of the works of Herman Melville and is writinga book-length study of the Atlantic Cable.scott peeples, Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of American Studies at the College of Charleston, is the author of Edgar Allan PoeRevisited (1998). His essays and reviews have appeared in such journals asAmerican Literature, Biography, and Criticism.rachel polonsky, Research and Teaching Fellow at Emmanuel College,Cambridge (1994–2000), is the author of English Literature and the RussianAesthetic Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 1998). She has written anumber of essays and reviews concerning early Russian and English literatureand cultural history for the Journal of European Studies, Slavonic and EastEuropean Review, and TLS.daniel royot, Emeritus Professor of American Literature and Civilization at the Sorbonne, Paris and President of the American Humor StudiesAssociation, has, among other books, authored or co-authored L’HumourAméricain: Des Puritains aux Yankees (1980), Images des U.S.A.: De l’IcônePopulaire à l’Oeuvre d’Art (1985), Nouvelle-Angleterre (1991), Histoire de laCulture Américaine (1993), and L’Humour et la Culture Américaine (1996).geoffrey sanborn, Assistant Professor of English, Williams College,Williamstown, Massachusetts is the author of The Sign of the Cannibal:Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader (1998). His work onBritish and American literature has also appeared in the Wordsworth Circleand Nineteenth-Century Literature.xiii Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationlist of contributorspeter thoms teaches in the Department of English at the University ofWestern Ontario. He is the author of Detection and Its Designs: Narrativeand Power in Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction (1998) and The Windings of the Labyrinth: Quest and Structure in the Major Novels of WilkieCollins (1992).sandra tomc is Associate Professor of English at the University of BritishColumbia. Her work on nineteenth-century American and contemporaryculture has appeared in American Quarterly, Canadian Literature, ESQ,and Essays in Theatre, as well as in numerous collections of essays. She iscurrently completing a book on nineteenth-century American writers andthe concept of leisured creativity.john tresch will receive his PhD in the History and Philosophy of Sciencefrom Cambridge University for a dissertation on Poe, Baudelaire, and Frenchscience. He is currently teaching at Columbia University in the Society ofFellows in the Humanities. His earlier work on Poe and science appeared inthe British Journal for the History of Science.karen weekes, Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Abington,has published essays treating nineteenth-century American literature in theGeorgia Review and Southern Literary Journal.xiv Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationCHRONOLOGY OF POE’S LIFE1809181118151816181818201823182518261827Edgar Poe is born 19 January in Boston, where his parents,Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr., both actors, areperforming.Elizabeth Poe dies 8 December in Richmond, Virginia. SinceDavid Poe had abandoned the family prior to his wife’s death,Edgar, his brother William Henry, and sister Rosalie enterdifferent foster families. Frances and John Allan take Edgarinto their family – without legally adopting him, however.John Allan moves his family to London, where he establisheda branch office of his mercantile firm, Allan and Ellis.Edgar enters a London boarding school run by the MissesDubourg.Edgar becomes a boarding student at the Manor House School,Stoke Newington, run by the Reverend John Bransby, whichwould later serve as the model for the school in “WilliamWilson.”His London business venture proving unsuccessful, John Allantakes his family back to Richmond, Virginia, where Poe beginsstudying with Joseph H. Clarke and also writes much poetry.Poe transfers to a Richmond school run by William Burke.John Allan inherits much of the immense fortune of his uncle,William Galt.In February, Poe enters the University of Virginia, where hestudies ancient and modern languages. He incurs considerablegambling debts, which John Allan refuses to honor. Poe leavesschool in December and returns to Richmond.Frequently bickering with Allan, Poe leaves Richmond forBoston, where Calvin F. S. Thomas publishes his first collectionof verse, Tamerlane and Other Poems. Using the name Edgarxv Cambridge University Presswww.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press0521793262 - The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan PoeEdited by Kevin J. HayesFrontmatterMore informationchronology of poe’s life18281829183018311832183318341835A. Perry, he enlists in the US Army and is ordered to FortMoultrie, South Carolina.Rising to the rank of sergeant major, Poe begins to seekappointment to US Military Academy at West Point.To that end, he becomes reconciled with John Allan,who helps him obtain the appointment. Frances Allandies 28 February.Hatch and Dunning publish Poe’s second collection of verse,Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems at Baltimore.Poe enters West Point in May. John Allan remarries inOctober 1830.Though endearing himself to fellow cadets, Poe generallydislikes life at the Academy, deliberately disobeys orders,and is court-martialed and expelled from West Point.Before leaving, however, he solicits subscriptions for histhird collection of verse, Poems, which is published atNew York by Elam Bliss and dedicated to “The US Corpsof Cadets.” He relocates to Baltimore, where he lives withhis aunt and cousin, Maria and Virginia Clemm. His brotherHenry, who also lives with the Clemms, dies on 1 August.Poe submits five tales to a contest sponsored by thePhiladelphia Saturday Courier: “The Bargain Lost,”“A Decided Loss,” “The Duke de L’Omelette,”“Metzengerstein,” and “A Tales of Jerusalem,” whichpublishes all of them.In October, “MS. Found in a Bottle” wins the first prize of 50 in a literary contest sponsored by the Baltimore SaturdayVisiter, which also publishes “The Coliseum” th

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