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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe (Hardcover)
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No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger
international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated,
read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture.
Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for
"the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly
nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary
historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as
extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th
century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national
canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding
of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy
classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh
debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his
cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive
reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading
experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a
sweeping reexamination of Poe's work. Forty-five distinguished
scholars address Poe's troubled life and checkered career as a
"magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays,
opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into
Poe's lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics,
and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe,
science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking,
this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless
fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations
of readers and scholars.
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