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Edgar Allan Poe

Selected Poetry, Tales, and Essays, Authoritative Texts with Essays on Three Critical Controversies

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Table of Contents

Contents
Why Study Critical Controversies?
PART ONE: Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Work
The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
POETRY Tamerlane
The Sleeper
The City In The Sea
To Helen
Lenore
Israfel
The Raven
To Marie Louise
Annabel Lee
For Annie
TALES Metzengerstein
Berenice
Ligeia
How To Write A Blackwood Article
The Man That Was Used Up
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
William Wilson
The Man Of The Crowd
The Murders In The Rue Morgue
The Oval Portrait
The Pit And The Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Black Cat
The Purloined Letter
The Imp of the Perverse
The Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog
ESSAYS Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House
The Philosophy Of Composition
PART TWO: A Case Study in Critical Controversy THE CONTROVERSY OVER AESTHETICS AND THE LITERARY MARKETPLACE
OR, IS POE A LITERARY GENIUS OR A POP CULTURE HACK? James Russell Lowell, "Edgar Allan Poe" (1845)
James Russell Lowell, from "A Fable for Critics" (1848)
Rufus Griswold, "Death of Edgar A. Poe" (1849)
Rufus Griswold, "Preface" (1850)
Charles Baudelaire, "New Notes on Edgar Poe" (1857)
Sarah Helen Whitman, "Edgar Poe and His Critics" (1860)
Henry James, "Charles Baudelaire" (1876)
George Bernard Shaw, "Edgar Allan Poe" (1909)
Yvor Winters, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Crisis in the History of American Obscurantism" (1937)
T. S. Eliot, "From Poe to Valery" (1949)
Allen Tate The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe' (1968); E. L. Doctorow, "Our Edgar" (2006); J. Gerald Kennedy, "Poe in Our Time" (2001); Scott Peeples, Lionizing
Poe as Cultural Signifier (2004)
THE CONTROVERSY OVER RACE; OR, WHAT DID POE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SLAVERY? Joan Dayan, "Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves" (1994); Lesley Ginsberg, "Slavery and the Gothic Horror of Poe's 'The Black Cat'" (1998); Terence Whalen, "Average Racism: Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism" (1999); Paul Gilmore, 'A Rara Avis in Terris'
Poe's 'Hop Frog' and Race in the Antebellum Freak Show" (2001)
Maurice Lee, "Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism" (2003)
THE CONTROVERSY OVER GENDER AND SEXUALITY
OR, WHY IS POE SO OBSESSED WITH DEAD WOMEN? Beth Ann Bassein, "Poe's Most Poetic Subject" (1982)
J. Gerald Kennedy, "Horrors of Translation: The Death of a Beautiful Woman" (1987)
Cynthia S. Jordan, "Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story" (1987)
Leland S. Person, "Poe's Poetics of Desire: 'Th'Expanding Eye to the Loved Object'" (1999)
Eliza Richards, "Women's Place in Poe Studies" (2000)
Joseph Church, "'To Make Venus Vanish': Misogyny as Motive in Poe's 'Murder's in the Rue Morgue'" (2006)
Valerie Rohy, "Ahistorical" (2006)
Appendix: How to Write about Critical Controversy over the Work of Edgar Allan Poe
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Edition Notes

Source title: Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry, Tales, and Essays, Authoritative Texts with Essays on Three Critical Controversies (Case Studies in Critical Controversy)

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Library of Congress
PS2603, PS2602 .G28 2016

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Format
paperback
Number of pages
592

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28148104M
Internet Archive
edgarallanpoesel0000poee
ISBN 10
1457629321
ISBN 13
9781457629327
OCLC/WorldCat
912382779

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