Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The poet as critic
- 2 Poe and his circle
- 3 Poe’s aesthetic theory
- 4 Poe’s humor
- 5 Poe and the Gothic tradition
- 6 Poe, sensationalism, and slavery
- 7 Extra! Extra! Poe invents science fiction!
- 8 Poe’s Dupin and the power of detection
- 9 Poe’s feminine ideal
- 10 A confused beginning
- 11 Poe’s “constructiveness” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
- 12 Two verse masterworks
- 13 Poe and popular culture
- 14 One-man modernist
- Select bibliography
- Index
Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The poet as critic
- 2 Poe and his circle
- 3 Poe’s aesthetic theory
- 4 Poe’s humor
- 5 Poe and the Gothic tradition
- 6 Poe, sensationalism, and slavery
- 7 Extra! Extra! Poe invents science fiction!
- 8 Poe’s Dupin and the power of detection
- 9 Poe’s feminine ideal
- 10 A confused beginning
- 11 Poe’s “constructiveness” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
- 12 Two verse masterworks
- 13 Poe and popular culture
- 14 One-man modernist
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe , pp. 247 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002