The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

Author(s): Edgar Allen Poe; G. R. Thompson

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"Backgrounds and Contexts" 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.


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  • : 9780393972856
  • : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
  • : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
  • : 0.776
  • : August 2004
  • : 2.888 Centimeters X 14.8 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Edgar Allen Poe; G. R. Thompson
  • : Hardback
  • : 0409
  • : English
  • : 1024