Edgar Allan Poe

A Critical Biography

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-02-20
Mått:155 x 237 x 47 mm
Vikt:1 130 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:864
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801857300

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Arthur Hobson Quinn (1875-1960) is also the author of American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey and History of the American Drama. Shawn J. Rosenheim is an associate professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Allan Poe to the Internet, also available from Johns Hopkins.

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Without warning, without any preliminary fanfare of trumpets, a book has now appeared that towers above others of its kind, a book in which resourceful scholarship and a lucid gift of expression are happily joined. I wish I could recapture all I have recklessly said in praise of other books and concentrate it here. Books

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List of IllustrationsForewordPreface Chapter 1. The HeritageChapter 2. Richmond–The Early YearsChapter 3. The School Days in EnglandChapter 4. Richmond Again, 1820–1826Chapter 5. The University of VirginiaChapter 6. "Tamerlane" and the ArmyChapter 7. Hope Deferred – "Al Aaraaf"Chapter 8. West Point and the "Poems" of 1831Chapter 9. Baltimore – The Early FictionChapter 10. The Editor of the "Messenger"Chapter 11. Philadelphia – The "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"Chapter 12. At the Summit – The Editor of "Graham's Magazine"Chapter 13. Following the IllusinChapter 14. New York – "The Raven" and Other MattersChapter 15. The "Broadway Journal" and the "Poems" of 1845Chapter 16. Widening Horizons – Friends and EnemiesChapter 17. "Eureka"Chapter 18. To Helen and For AnnieChapter 19. Richmond – The Last AppealChapter 20. The Recoil of FateAppendicesBibliographyIndex