Student Companion to Edgar Allan Poe PDF
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Cover Page i Student Companion to Edgar Allan POE Page ii Recent Titles in Student Companions to Classic Writers Jane Austen by Debra Teachman Charles Dickens by Ruth Glancy F. Scott Fitzgerald by Linda C. Pelzer Nathaniel Hawthorne by Melissa McFarland Pennell Arthur Miller by Susan C. W. Abbotson George Orwell by Mitzi M. Brunsdale Edgar Allan Poe by Tony Magistrale Tennessee Williams by Nancy M. Tischler Richard Wright by Robert Felgar Page iii Student Companion to Edgar Allan POE Tony Magistrale Student Companions to Classic Writers Greenwood Press Westport, Connecticut • London Page iv Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Magistrale, Tony. Student companion to Edgar Allan Poe / Tony Magistrale. p. cm.—(Student companions to classic writers, ISSN 1522–7979) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–313–30992–2 (alk. paper) 1. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Examinations—Study guides. 3. Fantasy literature, American—Examinations—Study guides. 4. Fantasy literature, American—History and criticism. I. Title. II. Series. PS2638.M24 2001 818′.309—dc21 00–049071 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2001 by Tony Magistrale All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00–049071 ISBN: 0313309922 ISSN: 1522–7979 First published in 2001 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover portrait of Edgar Allan Poe reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress. Page v For Professors Frederick S. Frank and Sidney Poger, my first and last teachers of Poe Page vi This page intentionally left blank. Page vii Contents Series Foreword ix Preface xi 1. Notes Toward a Biography 1 2. The Contribution and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe 15 3. The Art of Poetry 35 4. Vampiric Love Stories 51 5. Tales of Psychological Terror, Homicide, and Revenge 75 6. The Origins of the Detective Tale 103 Selected Bibliography 127 Index 135 Page viii This page intentionally left blank. Page ix Series Foreword This series has been designed to meet the needs of students and general readers for accessible literary criticism on the American and world writers most frequently studied and read in the secondary school, community college, and fouryear college classrooms. Unlike other works of literary criticism that are written for the specialist and graduate student, or that feature a variety of reprinted scholarly essays on sometimes obscure aspects of the writer’s work, the Student Companions to Classic Writers series is carefully crafted to examine each writer’s major works fully and in a systematic way, at the level of the nonspecialist and general reader. The objective is to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of the work and to apply critical thinking skills to the act of reading. The proven format for the volumes in this series was developed by an advisory board of teachers and librarians for a successful series published by Greenwood Press, Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Responding to their request for eachtouse and yet challenging literary criticism for students and adult library patrons, Greenwood Press developed a systematic format that is not intimidating but helps the reader to develop the ability to analyze literature. How does this work? Each volume in the Student Companions to Classic Writers series is written by a subject specialist, an academic who understands students’ needs for basic and yet challenging examination of the writer’s canon. Each volume begins with a biographical chapter, drawn from published sources, biographies, and autobiographies, that relates the writer’s life to his or
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