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The Man of the Crowd - Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Paperback)
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The Man of the Crowd - Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Paperback)
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How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writings Edgar Allan
Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his
life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of
supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines,
living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles
Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where
he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring
mark on the writer and his craft. Poe wrote short stories, poems,
journalism, and editorials with urban readers in mind. He witnessed
urban slavery up close, living and working within a few blocks of
slave jails and auction houses in Richmond and among enslaved
workers in Baltimore. In Philadelphia, he saw an expanding city
struggling to contain its own violent propensities. At a time when
suburbs were just beginning to offer an alternative to crowded city
dwellings, he tried living cheaply on the then-rural Upper West
Side of Manhattan, and later in what is now the Bronx. Poe's urban
mysteries and claustrophobic tales of troubled minds and abused
bodies reflect his experiences living among the soldiers, slaves,
and immigrants of the American city. Featuring evocative
photographs by Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd challenges
the popular conception of Poe as an isolated artist living in a
world of his own imagination, detached from his physical
surroundings. The Poe who emerges here is a man whose outlook and
career were shaped by the cities where he lived, longing for a
stable home.
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