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Poe's Short Storiesby J. M. Lybyer; James L. Roberts
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated as the genius of the gothic horror story. Emphasizing the grotesque, the mysterious, the desolate, and the horrible, he arouses fear in readers. He is the champion of storytelling that gives us a nervous sense of the ghostly and the supernatural. CliffsNotes on Poe's Short Stories takes you inside the mind of this one-of-a-kind American author. Consider his place in the Romantic movement and examine his critical theories with the insightful... more...
Edgar Allen Poeby Ian Walker
Routledge 1997; US$ 375.00Edgar Allen Poe (1809-49). Noted for the macabre and pathological element of his works. Writings include: The Raven and other poems, Tamerlane and other poems. Volume covers the period 1846-1892. more...
American Flaneurby James V. Werner
Routledge 2004; US$ 111.00Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims and intimate yet ambivalent relationship with his surrounding culture. more...
Poe and the Printed Wordby Kevin J. Hayes; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 26.00Kevin Hayes reappraises Edgar Allan Poe's work in the context of nineteenth-century print culture. Beginning with Poe's early exposure to the printed word, and ending with the ambitious magazine and book projects of his final years, this study is part biography, part literary history and part history of the book. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poeby Kevin J. Hayes
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 25.00The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allen Poe consists of 14 essays by leading international scholars. It examines all of Poe's major writings, and places his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. It features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading. more...
A Southern Renaissanceby Richard H. King
Oxford University Press 1982; US$ 26.00This perceptive study of a major cultural movement shows how Southern writers of 1930 t0 1955 tried to come to terms with Southern tradition, and discusses the resulting body of significant literature - fiction, poetry, memoirs, and historical writing. more...
A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poeby J. Gerald Kennedy
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 50.00Contains an introduction that considers the tension between Poe's "otherworldly" settings and his historically marked representations of violence. This book covers topics such as Poe and the American Publishing Industry, Poe's Sensationalism, Poe's relationship to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy. more...
The Future of Southern Lettersby Jefferson Humphries; John Lowe
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 45.00The New South--replete with shopping malls, hub airports, educated African Americans, and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haiti--is still haunted by the Gothic ghosts of its past. Does the collision between past and present account for the continued preeminence of Southern writers in America's literary culture? Bobbie Ann Mason, Ernest Gaines, Rita Mae Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Cormac McCarthy, Dorothy Allison, and Allan Gurganus are just a few of the writers who draw on a new kind of Southern background while reaching out to a broad American readership. Yet many of these writers have been accused of catering to the stereotypes they think a national audience requires. It would seem that questions of Southern identity continue to be... more...
Sustaining New Orleansby Barbara Eckstein
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 95.00Straddles urban studies, American studies, history and literature, and looks at New Orlean's status over the course of the 20th century. This work shows that 'sustainability' has multiple applications in the context of New Orleans history. It explores how the city's voodoo and Creole traditions have separated New Orleans from the rest of America. more...
Romancing the Shadowby Gerald Kennedy
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 50.00Edgar Allan Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantasies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This book revisits the Poe's issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author or his work as a racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies. more...