A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe

by J. Gerald Kennedy

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the "republic of letters" in the United...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019512149X

ISBN13:9780195121490

Release Date:January 2001

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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