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9780801857300

Edgar Allan Poe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801857300

  • ISBN10:

    0801857309

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-11-25
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies."

Author Biography

Arthur Hobson Quinn (1875-1960) is also the author of American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey and History of the American Drama. Shawn J. Rosenheim is an associate professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Allan Poe to the Internet, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ix(2)
FOREWORD xi(3)
PREFACE xix
I. THE HERITAGE
1(50)
II. RICHMOND--THE EARLY YEARS
51(14)
III. THE SCHOOL DAYS IN ENGLAND
65(16)
IV. RICHMOND AGAIN, 1820-1826
81(16)
V. THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
97(21)
VI. "TAMERLANE" AND THE ARMY
118(20)
VII. HOPE DEFERRED--"AL AARAAF"
138(28)
VIII. WEST POINT AND THE "POEMS" OF 1831
166(20)
IX. BALTIMORE--THE EARLY FICTION
186(32)
X. THE EDITOR OF THE "MESSENGER"
218(45)
XI. PHILADELPHIA--THE "TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE"
263(42)
XII. AT THE SUMMIT--THE EDITOR OF "GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE"
305(41)
XIII. FOLLOWING THE ILLUSION
346(59)
XIV. NEW YORK--"THE RAVEN" AND OTHER MATTERS
405(46)
XV. THE "BROADWAY JOURNAL" AND THE "POEMS" OF 1845
451(45)
XVI. WIDENING HORIZONS--FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
496(39)
XVII. "EUREKA"
535(37)
XVIII. TO HELEN AND FOR ANNIE
572(43)
XIX. RICHMOND--THE LAST APPEAL
615(27)
XX. THE RECOIL OF FATE
642(55)
APPENDICES 697(66)
I. THE THEATRICAL CAREER OF EDGAR POE'S PARENTS 697(28)
II. ORIGINAL RECORDS OF THE POE AND CLEMM FAMILIES IN BALTIMORE 725(2)
III. EDGAR POE'S BIRTHPLACE 727(3)
IV. THE POE FAMILY IN NORFOLK IN 1811 730(2)
V. WHERE DID ELIZABETH POE DIE? 732(10)
VI. POE'S RECORD IN THE ARMY AND AT WEST POINT 742(3)
VII. THE "TALES OF THE FOLIO CLUB" 745(2)
VIII. POE'S REVISION OF THE "PHANTASY PIECES" 747(4)
IX. CONTRACTS FOR THE "BROADWAY JOURNAL" 751(3)
X. GRISWOLD'S POWER OF ATTORNEY FROM MRS. CLEMM FOR THE PUBLICATION OF POE'S WORKS 754(1)
XI. POE'S LAST JOURNEY 755(2)
XII. A POSSIBLE NEW POE SATIRE 757(6)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 763(8)
INDEX 771

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