Routledge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

The Routledge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe considers one of the world’s best-known and most influential authors, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). It features thirty cutting-edge essays written by leading Poe and American literature scholars from across the globe.The Companion is divided into five parts: Poe’s life, works, themes, global reception, and legacy. Chapters discuss a diverse range of topics, including race, ecocriticism, architectural spaces, gender and sexuality, African American writing, disability, Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen King, Poe’s reception in the Arab-speaking world, comics and graphic novels, and Afro-, African, and Indigenous Futurisms. The volume concludes with an annotated bibliography of scholarship on Poe, which includes the exponential boom in diverse approaches to Poe appearing in the last decade.Addressing and dispelling persistent myths that have become associated with the life and writings of Poe, an innovator in multiple literary forms and a popular culture icon, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, science fiction, gothic writing, and detective fiction.