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Edgar Allan Poe’s works, with their gothic and often
obsessive themes, have had a significant influence on American
literature. In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson
has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.
“Backgrounds and Contexts”
includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate
Poe’s prolific but short career, among them reviews,
prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces
dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism,
sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and
slavery.
Fourteen judiciously selected
critical essays address Poe’s poetry, fiction, politics,
and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert
C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer,
Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton
Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John
Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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