The Selected Writings Of Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Edgar Allen Poe; G. R. Thompson

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ISBN : 9780393972856
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
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Publication date : August 2004
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Author : Edgar Allen Poe; G. R. Thompson
Series : Norton Critical Editions Ser.
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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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