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The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

by Kevin J. Hayes

Pages: 266

Contributors: Kevin J. Hayes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Place of Publication: Cambridge, England

Publication Year: 2002

Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan,--1809-1849--Criticism And Interpretation

Table of Contents

Title Page

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Contents

List of Illustrations

Contributors

Chronology of Poe's Life

Short Titles and Abbreviations

Introduction

Notes

1: The Poet as Critic

Notes

2: Poe and His Circle

Notes

3: Poe's Aesthetic Theory

Notes

4: Poe's Humor

Notes

5: Poe and the Gothic Tradition

Notes

6: Poe, Sensationalism, and Slavery

Notes

7: Extra! Extra! Poe Invents Science Fiction!

Notes

8: Poe's Dupin and the Power of Detection

Notes

9: Poe's Feminine Ideal

Notes

10: A Confused Beginning: the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket

Notes

11: Poe's “constructiveness” and “the Fall of the House of Usher”

Notes

12: Two Verse Masterworks: “the Raven” and “ulalume”

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13: Poe and Popular Culture

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14: One-Man Modernist

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