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PoeandthePrintedWord Edgar Allan Poe continues to be a fascinating literary figure to students and scholars alike. Increasingly the focus of study pushes beyond the fright and amusement of his famous tales and seeks to locate the author within the culture of his time. In PoeandthePrintedWord,KevinJ.Hayesexplorestherelationship betweenvarious facets of print culture and Poe’s life and works by examining how the publishing opportunities of his time influenced his development as a writer. Hayes demonstrates how Poe employed different methods of publication as a show- case for his verse, criticism, and fiction. Beginning with Poe’s early exposure to the printed word, and ending with the ambitious magazine and book projects of his final years, this reappraisalofPoe’scareer providesanengagingaccountthatis part biography, part literary history, and part history of the book. kevin j. hayes is Associate Professor of English at the UniversityofCentralOklahoma.Hismostrecentbooksinclude A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf (1996), Folklore and Book Culture (1997),andMelville’sFolkRoots(1999),histhirdbookonHerman Melville. He also edited Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews (1996). cambridge studies in american literature and culture Editor RossPosnock,UniversityofWashington FoundingEditor AlbertGelpi,StanfordUniversity AdvisoryBoard NinaBaym,UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign SacvanBercovitch,HarvardUniversity RonBush,St.John’sCollege,OxfordUniversity AlbertGelpi,StanfordUniversity MyraJehlen,RutgersUniversity CarolynPorter,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley RobertStepto,YaleUniversity Booksintheseries: 123 JeffreyA.Hammond,TheAmericanPuritanElegy:ALiteraryand CulturalStudy 122 CaroleDoreski,WritingAmericaBlack:RaceRhetoricandthePublicSphere 121 EricWertheimer,ImaginedEmpires:Incas,Aztecs,andtheNewWorld ofAmericanLiterature,1771–1876 120 EmilyMillerBudick,BlacksandJewsinLiteraryDialogue 119 MickGidley,EdwardS.CurtisandtheNorthAmericanIndian,Inc. 118 WilsonMoses,Afrocentrism,Antimodernism,andUtopia 117 LindonBarrett,BlacknessandValue:SeeingDouble 116 LawrenceHowe,MarkTwainandtheNovel:TheDouble-CrossofAuthority 115 JanetCasey,DosPassosandtheIdeologyoftheFeminine 114 CarolineLevander,VoicesoftheNation:WomenandPublicSpeechin Nineteenth-CenturyAmericanLiteratureandCulture 113 HarryetteMullen,FreeingtheSoul:Race,Subjectivity,andDifferencein SlaveNarratives 112 DennisA.Foster,SublimeEnjoyment:OnthePerverseMotivein AmericanLiterature Listcontinuesatendofbook POE AND THE PRINTED WORD KEVIN J. HAYES publishedbythepresssyndicateoftheuniversityofcambridge ThePittBuilding,TrumpingtonStreet,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom cambridgeuniversitypress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridge,cb22ru,UK http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk 40West20thStreet,NewYork,ny10011–4211,USA http://www.cup.org 10StamfordRoad,Oakleigh,Melbourne3166,Australia #KevinJ.Hayes2000 Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionsofrelevant collectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthe writtenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2000 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge TypesetinBaskerville11/12.5pt [ce] AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongresscataloguinginpublicationdata Hayes,KevinJ. Poeandtheprintedword/KevinJ.Hayes. p. cm.–(CambridgestudiesinAmericanliteratureandculture) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn0521662761 1.Poe,EdgarAllan,1809–1849–Authorship. 2.Poe,EdgarAllan,1809–1849–Booksandreading. 3.Publishersandpublishing–Maryland–Baltimore–History–19thcentury. 4.Poe,EdgarAllan,1809–1849–Knowledge–Bookindustriesandtrade. 5.Authorsandpublishers–UnitedStates–History–19thcentury. 6.Literaturepublishing–UnitedStates–History–19thcentury. 7.Fantasyliterature,American–Historyandcriticism. 8.Authors,American–19thcentury–Biography. i.Title. ii.Series. ps2636.h39 2000 818’.309–dc21 99–16684 cip isbn0521662761hardback In honor of Lawrence C. Wroth Contents Preface pagexi Listofabbreviations xvii 1 Thestudentandthebook 1 2 Poetryinmanuscriptandprint 17 3 Baltimorebookculture 30 4 Booksellers’banquet 45 5 Thenovel 58 6 Poe’slibrary 74 7 Cheapbooksandexpensivemagazines 87 8 TheroadtoLiteraryAmerica 98 Conclusion 112 Notes 116 Bibliography 130 Index 138 ix
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