The Cambridge companion to Edgar Allan Poe / edited by Kevin J. Hayes.

Contributor Hayes, Kevin J.

Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Descriptionxx, 266 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.

Note:The poet as critic / Kent Ljungquist. - Poe and his circle / Sandra M. Tomc. - Poe's aesthetic theory / Rachel Polonsky. - Poe's humor / Daniel Royot. - Poe and the Gothic tradition / Benjamin Franklin Fisher. - Poe, sensationalism, and slavery / Teresa A. Goddu. - Extra! Extra! Poe invents science fiction! / John Tresch. - Poe's Dupin and the power of detection / Peter Thoms. - Poe's feminine ideal / Karen Weekes. - A confused beginning: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket / Geoffrey Sanborn. - Poe's "constructiveness" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" / Scott Peeples. - Two verse masterworks: "The Raven" and "Ulalume" / Richard Kopley and Kevin J. Hayes. - Poe and popular culture / Mark Neimeyer. - One-man modernist / Kevin J. Hayes.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.

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