J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (1987) and, with the support of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (2016). He also edited the Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (2001) and The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (2006) and co-edited Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (2001) as well as Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (2012).Scott Peeples is Professor of English at the College of Charleston and the author of Edgar Allan Poe Revisited (1998) and The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (2004), which received the Patrick F. Quinn Award from the Poe Studies Association. He has also published numerous articles on Poe and other topics in 19th-century American literature. Peeples co-edited the journal Poe Studies from 2008 to 2013 and currently serves on the editorial board of the Edgar Allan Poe Review.

This remarkable book provides the "authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research" promised on the dust jacket... the book is an exceptional achievement.

• Abbreviations of Poe's Works List of Contributors Introduction: The Unfolding Investigation of Edgar Allan Poe J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples 1. An Orphan's Life: 1809-1831 James M. Hutchisson 2. A Life in Print: 1831-1849 Scott Peeples 3. Poe: A Life in Letters Lesley Ginsberg 4. Poe's Lives Richard Kopley 5. Orientalism in Poe's Early Poetry John Carlos Rowe 6. Echoes of the "Raven": Unoriginality in Poe's VerseMichael C. Cohen 7. Poe's Common Meter Virginia Jackson 8. Early Experiments in Genre: Imitations, Burlesques, Satires Alexander Hammond 9. The Perversity of Public Opinion in Poe's Later Satires and Hoaxes Stacey Margolis 10. Undead Wives and Undone Husbands: Poe's Tales of Marriage Ellen Weinauer 11. Solving Mysteries in Poe, or Trying To Susan Elizabeth Sweeney 12. Deciphering Dupin: Poe's Ratiocinative Plots Kelly Ross 13. The Calculus of Probabilities: Contingency in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" Valerie Rohy 14. Counterparts: Poe's Doubles from "William Wilson" to "The Cask of Amontillado" Paul Christian Jones 15. Outing the Perverse: Poe's False Confessionals Leland S. Person 16. Poe's Survival Stories as Dying Colonialisms Matt Sandler 17. Poe's Landscapes, Picturesque and Ideal Kent P. Ljungquist 18. Undying Enigmas in "Ligeia" Alexandra Urakova 19. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and the Architecture of Unreliability Agnieska Soltysik Monnet 20. Genre, Science, and "Hans Pfaall" Maurice S. Lee 21. Rude Representation: Orienting the American Frontier Through the Characters in Pym's Chasm Jacob Berman 22. Pym and Unreadability Cindy Weinstein 23. Poe's Novel Explorations Lauren Coats 24. Conversations on the Body and the Soul: Transcending Death in the Angelic Dialogues and "Mesmeric Revelation" Bruce Mills 25. Making Sense of Eureka Laura Saltz 26. Poe the Critic: The Aesthetics of the "Tomahawk" Review Paul Hurh 27. The Marginal Center: "Pinakidia," "Marginalia," and "Fifty Suggestions" Stephen Rachman 28. Poe the Magazinist Philip Edward Phillips 29. Poe's Cultural Inheritance: Literary Touchstones and the Cultivation of Erudition William E. Engel 30. Ancestral Piles: Poe's Gothic Materials Sean Moreland 31. Kindred Contemporaries: Lippard, Bird, Simms, Hawthorne, and Irving Carl Ostrowski 32. Edgar Allan Poe and His Enemies Sandra Tomc 33. Bluestockings and Bohemians Edward Whitley 34. Poe and His Global Advocates Emron Esplin 35. Poe and Modern(ist) Poetry: An Impure Legacy Margarida Vale de Gato 36. An Unrequited Obsession: Poe and Modern Horror W. Scott Poole 37. Dupin's Descendants in Print and on Screen John Gruesser 38. Poe's Visual Legacy Barbara Cantalupo 39. Poe and the Avant-Garde Jonathan Elmer 40. Postmodern Poe Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 41. Poe and Science Fiction Paul Grimstad 42. Poe and the Sciences of the Brain Paul Gilmore 43. Temporal Effects: Trauma, Margaret Fuller, and "Graphicality" in Poe Christina Zwarg 44. Unqualified Pleasure: Poe on Forms of Life Branka Arsi'c 45. Poe's Terror Analytics J. Gerald Kennedy Index

J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (1987) and, with the support of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (2016). He also edited the Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (2001) and The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (2006) and co-edited Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (2001) as well as Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (2012).Scott Peeples is Professor of English at the College of Charleston and the author of Edgar Allan Poe Revisited (1998) and The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (2004), which received the Patrick F. Quinn Award from the Poe Studies Association. He has also published numerous articles on Poe and other topics in 19th-century American literature. Peeples co-edited the journal Poe Studies from 2008 to 2013 and currently serves on the editorial board of the Edgar Allan Poe Review.

This remarkable book provides the "authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research" promised on the dust jacket... the book is an exceptional achievement.

• Abbreviations of Poe's Works List of Contributors Introduction: The Unfolding Investigation of Edgar Allan Poe J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples 1. An Orphan's Life: 1809-1831 James M. Hutchisson 2. A Life in Print: 1831-1849 Scott Peeples 3. Poe: A Life in Letters Lesley Ginsberg 4. Poe's Lives Richard Kopley 5. Orientalism in Poe's Early Poetry John Carlos Rowe 6. Echoes of the "Raven": Unoriginality in Poe's VerseMichael C. Cohen 7. Poe's Common Meter Virginia Jackson 8. Early Experiments in Genre: Imitations, Burlesques, Satires Alexander Hammond 9. The Perversity of Public Opinion in Poe's Later Satires and Hoaxes Stacey Margolis 10. Undead Wives and Undone Husbands: Poe's Tales of Marriage Ellen Weinauer 11. Solving Mysteries in Poe, or Trying To Susan Elizabeth Sweeney 12. Deciphering Dupin: Poe's Ratiocinative Plots Kelly Ross 13. The Calculus of Probabilities: Contingency in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" Valerie Rohy 14. Counterparts: Poe's Doubles from "William Wilson" to "The Cask of Amontillado" Paul Christian Jones 15. Outing the Perverse: Poe's False Confessionals Leland S. Person 16. Poe's Survival Stories as Dying Colonialisms Matt Sandler 17. Poe's Landscapes, Picturesque and Ideal Kent P. Ljungquist 18. Undying Enigmas in "Ligeia" Alexandra Urakova 19. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and the Architecture of Unreliability Agnieska Soltysik Monnet 20. Genre, Science, and "Hans Pfaall" Maurice S. Lee 21. Rude Representation: Orienting the American Frontier Through the Characters in Pym's Chasm Jacob Berman 22. Pym and Unreadability Cindy Weinstein 23. Poe's Novel Explorations Lauren Coats 24. Conversations on the Body and the Soul: Transcending Death in the Angelic Dialogues and "Mesmeric Revelation" Bruce Mills 25. Making Sense of Eureka Laura Saltz 26. Poe the Critic: The Aesthetics of the "Tomahawk" Review Paul Hurh 27. The Marginal Center: "Pinakidia," "Marginalia," and "Fifty Suggestions" Stephen Rachman 28. Poe the Magazinist Philip Edward Phillips 29. Poe's Cultural Inheritance: Literary Touchstones and the Cultivation of Erudition William E. Engel 30. Ancestral Piles: Poe's Gothic Materials Sean Moreland 31. Kindred Contemporaries: Lippard, Bird, Simms, Hawthorne, and Irving Carl Ostrowski 32. Edgar Allan Poe and His Enemies Sandra Tomc 33. Bluestockings and Bohemians Edward Whitley 34. Poe and His Global Advocates Emron Esplin 35. Poe and Modern(ist) Poetry: An Impure Legacy Margarida Vale de Gato 36. An Unrequited Obsession: Poe and Modern Horror W. Scott Poole 37. Dupin's Descendants in Print and on Screen John Gruesser 38. Poe's Visual Legacy Barbara Cantalupo 39. Poe and the Avant-Garde Jonathan Elmer 40. Postmodern Poe Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 41. Poe and Science Fiction Paul Grimstad 42. Poe and the Sciences of the Brain Paul Gilmore 43. Temporal Effects: Trauma, Margaret Fuller, and "Graphicality" in Poe Christina Zwarg 44. Unqualified Pleasure: Poe on Forms of Life Branka Arsi'c 45. Poe's Terror Analytics J. Gerald Kennedy Index

J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (1987) and, with the support of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (2016). He also edited the Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (2001) and The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (2006) and co-edited Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (2001) as well as Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (2012).Scott Peeples is Professor of English at the College of Charleston and the author of Edgar Allan Poe Revisited (1998) and The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (2004), which received the Patrick F. Quinn Award from the Poe Studies Association. He has also published numerous articles on Poe and other topics in 19th-century American literature. Peeples co-edited the journal Poe Studies from 2008 to 2013 and currently serves on the editorial board of the Edgar Allan Poe Review.

This remarkable book provides the "authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research" promised on the dust jacket... the book is an exceptional achievement.

• Abbreviations of Poe's Works List of Contributors Introduction: The Unfolding Investigation of Edgar Allan Poe J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples 1. An Orphan's Life: 1809-1831 James M. Hutchisson 2. A Life in Print: 1831-1849 Scott Peeples 3. Poe: A Life in Letters Lesley Ginsberg 4. Poe's Lives Richard Kopley 5. Orientalism in Poe's Early Poetry John Carlos Rowe 6. Echoes of the "Raven": Unoriginality in Poe's VerseMichael C. Cohen 7. Poe's Common Meter Virginia Jackson 8. Early Experiments in Genre: Imitations, Burlesques, Satires Alexander Hammond 9. The Perversity of Public Opinion in Poe's Later Satires and Hoaxes Stacey Margolis 10. Undead Wives and Undone Husbands: Poe's Tales of Marriage Ellen Weinauer 11. Solving Mysteries in Poe, or Trying To Susan Elizabeth Sweeney 12. Deciphering Dupin: Poe's Ratiocinative Plots Kelly Ross 13. The Calculus of Probabilities: Contingency in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" Valerie Rohy 14. Counterparts: Poe's Doubles from "William Wilson" to "The Cask of Amontillado" Paul Christian Jones 15. Outing the Perverse: Poe's False Confessionals Leland S. Person 16. Poe's Survival Stories as Dying Colonialisms Matt Sandler 17. Poe's Landscapes, Picturesque and Ideal Kent P. Ljungquist 18. Undying Enigmas in "Ligeia" Alexandra Urakova 19. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and the Architecture of Unreliability Agnieska Soltysik Monnet 20. Genre, Science, and "Hans Pfaall" Maurice S. Lee 21. Rude Representation: Orienting the American Frontier Through the Characters in Pym's Chasm Jacob Berman 22. Pym and Unreadability Cindy Weinstein 23. Poe's Novel Explorations Lauren Coats 24. Conversations on the Body and the Soul: Transcending Death in the Angelic Dialogues and "Mesmeric Revelation" Bruce Mills 25. Making Sense of Eureka Laura Saltz 26. Poe the Critic: The Aesthetics of the "Tomahawk" Review Paul Hurh 27. The Marginal Center: "Pinakidia," "Marginalia," and "Fifty Suggestions" Stephen Rachman 28. Poe the Magazinist Philip Edward Phillips 29. Poe's Cultural Inheritance: Literary Touchstones and the Cultivation of Erudition William E. Engel 30. Ancestral Piles: Poe's Gothic Materials Sean Moreland 31. Kindred Contemporaries: Lippard, Bird, Simms, Hawthorne, and Irving Carl Ostrowski 32. Edgar Allan Poe and His Enemies Sandra Tomc 33. Bluestockings and Bohemians Edward Whitley 34. Poe and His Global Advocates Emron Esplin 35. Poe and Modern(ist) Poetry: An Impure Legacy Margarida Vale de Gato 36. An Unrequited Obsession: Poe and Modern Horror W. Scott Poole 37. Dupin's Descendants in Print and on Screen John Gruesser 38. Poe's Visual Legacy Barbara Cantalupo 39. Poe and the Avant-Garde Jonathan Elmer 40. Postmodern Poe Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 41. Poe and Science Fiction Paul Grimstad 42. Poe and the Sciences of the Brain Paul Gilmore 43. Temporal Effects: Trauma, Margaret Fuller, and "Graphicality" in Poe Christina Zwarg 44. Unqualified Pleasure: Poe on Forms of Life Branka Arsi'c 45. Poe's Terror Analytics J. Gerald Kennedy Index