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.- About the Editors.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an
American author and poet; his short stories include "The Fall of
the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Pit and
the Pendulum," and "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Jared Gardner is a Professor in the Department of English and
the Film Studies Program at Ohio State University, specializing in
American literature, film, and popular culture.
Elizabeth Hewitt is Associate Professor in the Department of
English at Ohio State University.
"Carefully selected, expertly edited, and judiciously annotated,
James M. Hutchisson's Broadview Edition makes an excellent
introduction to Poe's imaginative and critical writings. Though
intended for classroom use, this exciting new edition will appeal
to all readers who wish to deepen their appreciation of Edgar Allan
Poe, the 'bad boy' of American literature." -- Kevin Hayes,
University of Central Oklahoma "Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry
and Tales brilliantly represents the best scholarly material on
Poe, delivered in an accessible, conversational tone that will
appeal to students. The contents run the gamut from Poe's notorious
and imaginative horror tales to his literary criticism. Moreover,
James M. Hutchisson has included examples of Poe's science fiction
stories, detective tales, and the oft-overlooked satires.
Instructors and students alike will benefit from this edition's
introduction, timeline, footnotes, and appendices, which help to
place Poe within his literary and social timeframe, a consideration
too often neglected." -- Amy Branam, Frostburg State University
"Carefully selected, expertly edited, and judiciously annotated,
James M. Hutchisson's Broadview Edition makes an excellent
introduction to Poe's imaginative and critical writings. Though
intended for classroom use, this exciting new edition will appeal
to all readers who wish to deepen their appreciation of Edgar Allan
Poe, the 'bad boy' of American literature." -- Kevin Hayes,
University of Central Oklahoma "Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry
and Tales brilliantly represents the best scholarly material on
Poe, delivered in an accessible, conversational tone that will
appeal to students. The contents run the gamut from Poe's notorious
and imaginative horror tales to his literary criticism. Moreover,
James M. Hutchisson has included examples of Poe's science fiction
stories, detective tales, and the oft-overlooked satires.
Instructors and students alike will benefit from this edition's
introduction, timeline, footnotes, and appendices, which help to
place Poe within his literary and social timeframe, a consideration
too often neglected." -- Amy Branam, Frostburg State University
“Carefully selected, expertly edited, and judiciously annotated,
James M. Hutchisson’s Broadview Edition makes an excellent
introduction to Poe’s imaginative and critical writings. Though
intended for classroom use, this exciting new edition will appeal
to all readers who wish to deepen their appreciation of Edgar Allan
Poe, the ‘bad boy’ of American literature.” — Kevin Hayes,
University of Central Oklahoma “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry
and Tales brilliantly represents the best scholarly material on
Poe, delivered in an accessible, conversational tone that will
appeal to students. The contents run the gamut from Poe’s notorious
and imaginative horror tales to his literary criticism. Moreover,
James M. Hutchisson has included examples of Poe’s science fiction
stories, detective tales, and the oft-overlooked satires.
Instructors and students alike will benefit from this edition’s
introduction, timeline, footnotes, and appendices, which help to
place Poe within his literary and social timeframe, a consideration
too often neglected.” — Amy Branam, Frostburg State University
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