Founder of the detective genre and author of works on cryptography,
Edgar Allan Poe possessed what Shawn Rosenheim called a
"cryptographic imagination." Not only was Poe's work influenced by
secret writing, it inspired future critics to search his texts for
secret clues and that fostered new modes of reading. Poe's
acclaimed complexity owes as much to a long and sophisticated
tradition of his interpretative reading as it does to the
"undercurrent of meaning" ciphered in his texts. Grounded in
previous scholarly work, Deciphering Poe: Contexts, Subtexts,
Subversive Meanings explores the hoaxing and subversive nature of
Poe's art and expands this contextual framework. Contributors to
the volume offer a highly nuanced picture of Poe's engagement in
the major discourses of the time-religious, philosophical, social,
and literary. Twelve essays of the collection discuss Poe's debt to
baroque tradition, his response to Catholicism, his tribute to
philosophical idea of sublimity, his complex response to racial
issues, and his controversial afterlife reception. The volume
includes new readings of Poe's texts explicitly using codes, secret
writing or techniques of detection-"The Gold Bug," The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym, and the Dupin tales. The essays in the
collection were originally presented as talks at the Poe Studies
Association's Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The
Bicentennial in October 2009. The contributors are Poe scholars
from the United States, France, Germany, and Canada: Amy C. Branam,
Lauren Curtright, Daniel Fineman, William E. Engel, John C. Havard,
Henri Justin, John Edward Martin, Sean Moreland, Philip E.
Phillips, Stephanie Sommerfeld, and Timothy N. Towslee.
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