
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe : A Norton Critical Edition Paperback / softback
by Edgar Allan Poe
Edited by G.R. (Purdue University) Thompson
Part of the Norton Critical Editions series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1024 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:11/05/2004
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- ISBN:9780393972856
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1024 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:11/05/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780393972856