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9781571133571

The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe

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    9781571133571

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    1571133577

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-04-20
  • Publisher: Camden House
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Summary

Controversies abound in studies of Poe. For years after his death, partisans debated his character: was he an alcoholic? a drug addict? a pathological liar? a necrophile? Later, psychoanalytic critics sought to free him from Victorian morality but courted scandal by linking his dreamlike stories to his personality. The value of Poe's literary productions was similarly disputed, as New Critics dismissed his work while poets such as W. C. Williams and Allen Tate championed him. Recent scholars have focused on race, class, and gender in Poe: how racist and misogynist was he, and how do the answers bear on his work? Finally, how have the countless plays, films, novels, comic books, and pop-music experiments based on his image and works intertwined with academic study of Poe? Scott Peeples examines these and other controversies, and his book will be of great interest both to Poe scholars and to all those interested in Poe and his work. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Scott Peeples is associate professor of English at the College of Charleston

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
The Man That Was Used Up: Poe's Place in American Literature, 1849-1909p. 1
A Dream Within a Dream: Poe and Psychoanalysisp. 29
Out of Space, Out of Time: From Early Formalism to Deconstructionp. 63
The Man of the Crowd: The Socio-Historical Poep. 93
Lionizing: Poe as Cultural Signifierp. 125
Afterword: Loss of Breath: Writing Poe's Last Daysp. 155
A Selected List of Works by Poep. 165
Works Citedp. 167
Indexp. 189
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