Amy Branam Armiento is professor of English at Frostburg State University.Travis Montgomery is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Christian University.

It’s long been recognized that the spirited female characters of Poe’s imagination could not stay buried, no matter how poetical their deaths might be. But this fascinating volume charts new territory by enabling recognition of the actual women who championed, confronted, and adapted Poe's work – including biographers who defended it, scholars who interpreted it in new ways, and storytellers who continue to trace the subversive power of Poe’s heroines in film and other media.

• IntroductionAmy Branam Armiento and Travis MontgomeryPart I: Recognition1.“The Vast Pantheon of Speculation”: Edgar Allan Poe and His Women Biographers Sandra Tomc2.Spiritual Dialogues:  Lydia Maria Child, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Politics of UnityAdam Bradford3.Fifty Years of Women’s Scholarship on PoeAmy Branam Armiento4.Transnational Poe: Women Scholars AbroadClara PetinoPart II: Revision5.“Can You See Me?”: Poe’s Female Characters and the Struggle for Self-Definition on FilmAlexandra Reuber6.“And She Grew Strangely”: Poe, Women, and ComicsJohn Edward Martin7.“Sort of E. A. Poeish”: Edgar Allan Poe and Female Pulp WritersKevin Knott8.Traces of Poe’s House of Usher in the Work of Contemporary Women Horror WritersMelanie R. AndersonAfterword: Maureen Cobb Mabbott and The Collected Works of Edgar Allan PoeTravis Montgomery

Amy Branam Armiento is professor of English at Frostburg State University.Travis Montgomery is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Christian University.

It’s long been recognized that the spirited female characters of Poe’s imagination could not stay buried, no matter how poetical their deaths might be. But this fascinating volume charts new territory by enabling recognition of the actual women who championed, confronted, and adapted Poe's work – including biographers who defended it, scholars who interpreted it in new ways, and storytellers who continue to trace the subversive power of Poe’s heroines in film and other media.

• IntroductionAmy Branam Armiento and Travis MontgomeryPart I: Recognition1.“The Vast Pantheon of Speculation”: Edgar Allan Poe and His Women Biographers Sandra Tomc2.Spiritual Dialogues:  Lydia Maria Child, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Politics of UnityAdam Bradford3.Fifty Years of Women’s Scholarship on PoeAmy Branam Armiento4.Transnational Poe: Women Scholars AbroadClara PetinoPart II: Revision5.“Can You See Me?”: Poe’s Female Characters and the Struggle for Self-Definition on FilmAlexandra Reuber6.“And She Grew Strangely”: Poe, Women, and ComicsJohn Edward Martin7.“Sort of E. A. Poeish”: Edgar Allan Poe and Female Pulp WritersKevin Knott8.Traces of Poe’s House of Usher in the Work of Contemporary Women Horror WritersMelanie R. AndersonAfterword: Maureen Cobb Mabbott and The Collected Works of Edgar Allan PoeTravis Montgomery

Amy Branam Armiento is professor of English at Frostburg State University.Travis Montgomery is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Christian University.

It’s long been recognized that the spirited female characters of Poe’s imagination could not stay buried, no matter how poetical their deaths might be. But this fascinating volume charts new territory by enabling recognition of the actual women who championed, confronted, and adapted Poe's work – including biographers who defended it, scholars who interpreted it in new ways, and storytellers who continue to trace the subversive power of Poe’s heroines in film and other media.

• IntroductionAmy Branam Armiento and Travis MontgomeryPart I: Recognition1.“The Vast Pantheon of Speculation”: Edgar Allan Poe and His Women Biographers Sandra Tomc2.Spiritual Dialogues:  Lydia Maria Child, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Politics of UnityAdam Bradford3.Fifty Years of Women’s Scholarship on PoeAmy Branam Armiento4.Transnational Poe: Women Scholars AbroadClara PetinoPart II: Revision5.“Can You See Me?”: Poe’s Female Characters and the Struggle for Self-Definition on FilmAlexandra Reuber6.“And She Grew Strangely”: Poe, Women, and ComicsJohn Edward Martin7.“Sort of E. A. Poeish”: Edgar Allan Poe and Female Pulp WritersKevin Knott8.Traces of Poe’s House of Usher in the Work of Contemporary Women Horror WritersMelanie R. AndersonAfterword: Maureen Cobb Mabbott and The Collected Works of Edgar Allan PoeTravis Montgomery