Table of Contents

Introduction Poe's Life and Times The Poe Legend by Ian Walker Modern Biographies by Alexander Hammond Poe's Writings The Poems: 1824-1835 by Elizabeth Phillips The Poems: 1836-1849 by Dwayne Thorpe The Tales of 1831-1835 by Richard P. Benton Other Comic Satires and Grotesques, 1836-1849 by Stuart and Susan Levine Tales of the Human Condition by William Goldhurst Tales of Psychal Conflict: "Berenice," "Morella," "Ligeia" by Eric W. Carlson Tales of Psychal Conflict: "William Wilson," "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Eric W. Carlson The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840) by Grace Farrell Moods of Mind: The Tales of Detection, Crime, and Punishment by Thomas Joswick Science Fiction and the Landscape Sketches by David E.E. Sloane and Michael Pettengell The Essays and the "Marginalia" by Beverly Voloshin The Reviews: The Evolution of a Critic by James Hutchisson Eureka: A Prose Poem: Poe's "Novel Universe" by Barbara Cantalupo Poe's Thought Poe's Materialistic Metaphysics of Man by Kenneth Hovey "Strange Alchemy of Brain": Poe and Alchemy by Randall Clack Feminist "Re-Visionings" of the Tales of Women by Paula Kot Poe and Postmodernism by David B. Hirsch Poe's Art Poe's Aesthetics by David Halliburton Language and Style in Poe's Prose by Donald Barlow Stauffer Poe's Influence Poe in Literature and Popular Culture by John E. Reilly Poe in Art, Music, Opera, and Dance by Burton P. Pollin Edgar Allan Poe: A Writer for the World by Lois Vines Poe and the World of Books by George Egon Hatvary Bibliography Index

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About the Author

ERIC W. CARLSON is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He was a founding member and first president of the Poe Studies Association, whose newsletter he cofounded and coedited with John E. Reilly for more than a decade. He has edited several books on Poe, and his Poe essays and lectures have been widely published.

Reviews

?The tone of the volume as a whole is that of the responsible critical/historical scholar who has taken into account the intricacies of literary influence, textual genesis, biographical detail, and extant documentation in order to arrive at sound conclusion....The amount of factual information gleaned by the reader seeking to become familiar with what we know of Poe is rewarded repeatedly by each essay.?-Extrapolation

?This reference companion...is a valuable guide to the scholarship and criticism that the enormous interest in Poe's life and work has generated, especially during the last fifty years.?-Nineteenth-Century Literature

?This volume is extraordinarily useful and valuable. It must be available to every serious student of the many sides of Edgar Allan Poe.?-Journal of American Culture

"This reference companion...is a valuable guide to the scholarship and criticism that the enormous interest in Poe's life and work has generated, especially during the last fifty years."-Nineteenth-Century Literature

"This volume is extraordinarily useful and valuable. It must be available to every serious student of the many sides of Edgar Allan Poe."-Journal of American Culture

"The tone of the volume as a whole is that of the responsible critical/historical scholar who has taken into account the intricacies of literary influence, textual genesis, biographical detail, and extant documentation in order to arrive at sound conclusion....The amount of factual information gleaned by the reader seeking to become familiar with what we know of Poe is rewarded repeatedly by each essay."-Extrapolation