Poe's Pervasive Influence

Barbara Cantalupo is associate professor of English in the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University and teaches at the Lehigh Valley Campus.

For Poe's Pervasive Influence, Cantalupo selected ten essays, an interview with Japanese mystery novelist Kiyoshi Kasai, and poems from presentations at the Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in 2009. She notes in her introduction that this volume builds on Lois Davis Vines's Poe Abroad: Influence, Reputation, Affinities, still the important basic source for Poe's early and later international influences. Cantalupo's choices reflect many of the changes and new geographies of a decade of accelerated transnational interests in the literary world. Three essays make solid connections between Poe and Japanese fiction writer Edogawa Rampo. American gothicism, including fiction by Lafcadio Hearn and William Faulkner, has been an interest in Japan for some time; Orientalism had its influence on Poe (for example, "Tamerlane," 1827) and on other American writers. In addition to Asia, the essays reach to Russia, Portugal, and back to the US. The noted Daniel Hoffman, who died in March 2013, discusses Poe's presence in work by Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Mary Oliver. Many of the writers have previously published on Poe or the genres in which he worked. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.

• ContentsIntroductionBarbara CantalupoChapter 1: Pathologizing Modernity: The Grotesque in Poe and RampoSeth JacobowitzChapter 2: Visionary Media in Edgar Allan Poe and Edogawa RampoWilliam O. GardnerChapter 3: Poe’s Shadow in Japan: Alternative Works and Failed Escapes in Edogawa Rampo’s Strange Tale of Panorama IslandMark SilverChapter 4: Interview with Kasai KiyoshiBarbara CantalupoChapter 5: Lu Xun and Poe: Reading the PsycheDiane SmithChapter 6: “Breaking the Law of Silence”: Rereading Poe’s “The Manof the Crowd” and Gogol’s “The Portrait”Alexandra UrakovaChapter 7: “What has occurred that has (never) occurred before”: A Case Study of the First Portuguese Detective NovelIsabel Oliveira MartinsChapter 8: “Around Reason Feeling”—Poe’s Impact on Fernando Pessoa’s Modernist ProposalMargarida Vale de GatoChapter 9: Poe in PlaceCharles CantalupoChapter 10: Ligeia—Not Me! Three Women Writers Respond to PoeDaniel HoffmanChapter 11: Gothic Windows in Poe and Faulkner: “The Fall of the Houseof Usher” and Absalom! Absalom!Shoko ItohChapter 12: Poe’s Progeny: Varieties of Detection in Key American Literary Texts, 1841-1861John Gruesser