by EdgarAllanPoe (Author)
In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.
Backgrounds and Contexts includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery.
Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe's poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 1024
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 05 Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 0393972852
ISBN 13: 9780393972856