The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin J. Hayes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2002-04-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521797276 |
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
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Release | 2002 |
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ISBN | 9785217932627 |
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2017-11-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107117143 |
This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.
Edgar Allan Poe in Context
Title | Edgar Allan Poe in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin J. Hayes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107009979 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry Larson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107494257 |
This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, many of whom are currently being rediscovered. A number of anthologies in the recent past have been devoted to the verse of groups such as Native Americans, African-Americans and women. This volume offers essays covering these groups as well as more familiar figures such as Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow and Melville. The contents are divided between broad topics of concern such as the poetry of the Civil War or the development of the 'poetess' role and articles featuring specific authors such as Edgar Allan Poe or Sarah Piatt. In the past two decades a growing body of scholarship has been engaged in reconceptualizing and re-evaluating this largely neglected area of study in US literary history - this Companion reflects and advances this spirit of revisionism.
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Richardson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 491 |
Release | 2015-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107123828 |
This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Priestman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2003-11-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107494508 |
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.