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The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

A Norton Critical Edition
By Edgar Allan Poe
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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This Norton Critical Edition of The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by G. R. Thompson, offers a comprehensive collection of Poe's major works alongside detailed annotations. It includes a rich selection of background documents illuminating Poe's life and literary context, such as reviews, correspondence, and discussions on themes like Transcendentalism, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery. Additionally, fourteen critical essays explore various aspects of Poe's poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology, contributing to a deeper understanding of his enduring influence.
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Ideal for students, scholars, and readers interested in literary criticism, American Romanticism, and the complexities of Edgar Allan Poe's work and legacy.

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The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s works, with their gothic and often obsessive themes, have had a significant influence on American literature.

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In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.

The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe includes "Backgrounds and Contexts" with fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe. It also covers 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.

Series: Norton Critical Editions

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393972856

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 August 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by G.R. Thompson

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 759g

Pages: 1024

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Edgar Allan Poe Non-Fiction Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) wrote tales of the macabre, and invented or contributed to inventing the detective and science fiction genres. G.R. Thompson is Professor of English at Purdue University. He has published several studies of Edgar Allan Poe, including Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales, Essays and Reviews of Edgar Allan Poe, Romantic Arabesque, Contemporary Theory, and Postmodernism and the Library of America edition of Poe’s Essays and Reviews.

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