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... of Washington A Concordance of the Poetical Works of Edgar Alan Poe. By BRADFORDA. BOOTHand CLAUDEE. JONES. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xiv + 211. $5.50. This concordance is a welcome addition as a tool for scholarship in the field of American letters. To be useful...

...P. M. Wetherill Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 EDGAR ALLAN POE AND MADAME SABATIER By P, M. WETHERILL In his critical works, Poe wrote that one of the most nobly poetic themes is that of pure love. He is referring to the “Uranian” Venus...

... Cornell University Glorious Incense: The Fulfillment of Edgar Allan Poe. By HALDEENBRADDY. Washington : Scarecrow Press, 1953. Pp. 234. $4.50. The two words making the title of this book come from language attributed to Poe by Mary Gove Nichols, in which he exclaimed how he...

...Franz Karl Mohr Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE INFLUENCE OF EICHENDORFF’S “AHNUNG UND GEGENWART” ON POE’S “MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH” By FRANZKARL MOHR The year 1949 marks the hundredth anniversary...

...Thomas H. McNeal Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 ∗ Read at the American Literature section of the South Atlantic MLA meeting, November, 1948. POE’S ZENOBIA : AN EARLY SATIRE ON MARGARET FULLER” By THOMASH. MCNEAL...

...Katrina E. Bachinger Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 “. . . and as for Progress it was at one time quite a nuisance, but it never progressed.” -Edgar Allan Poe, “Some Words with a Mummy” THE AESTHETICS...

...Francis B. Dedmond “THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO” AND THE WAR OF THE LITERATI By FRANCISB. DEDMOND The biographers and the critics of Poe have failed, by and large, to recognize and to appreciate...

...Clark Griffith Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 “EMERSONIANISM” AND “POEISM” SOME VERSIONS OF THE ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY By CLARKGRIFFITH The two prime forces in American romanticism are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe...

..., Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Poe. Of less significance were his contacts with Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, and Lowell. These chapters evoke a general interest, but nothing of major importance emerges from them. It seems established, though, that the device of the framed tale, as Irving uses...

.... Jugaku tells us that it is to form the first section of a trilogy on the notebook, to be followed by “aesthetical and doctrinal studies.” HAZARDADAMS Cornell University Glorious Incense: The Fulfillment of Edgar Allan Poe...

... that the text, the notes, and the bibliography taken together make up an analytical summary of Poe scholarship. Thus his book is a readily usable stock-taking of what is known and what has been concluded about Poe’s life and work. He has singled out the main problems, furthermore...

...Adam Barrows The fantasy of turning back the clock by journeying eastward across what we today call the International Date Line appears in the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and James Joyce, all of whom create characters who make, or contemplate making, such time-defying...

... not supply the names of the spirits whose communi- cations they professed to receive, but now and then they “admitted” having recognized the voices of such notables as Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats, Byron, and Poe. Reviewers and editors frequently speculated -more or less seriously-about...

.... Was American literature really worth studying and, if it was, then should it not be considered an offshoot of English literature (Poe as the American Coleridge; Emerson, the American Carlyle)? One finds many amusing and sometimes inadvertent substantiations of this attitude. Let me cite one...

... French Fiction (2006) and coeditor of a special issue of Yale French Studies , “Crime Fictions” (2005). Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Street Names and Private-Public Violence in Modern French Crime Fiction Andrea Goulet dgar Allan Poe’s inaugural detective story “The Murders...

.... $2.95, paper. Distributed in U.S.A. by International Scholarly Book Services, P.0. Box 4347, Portland, Oregon 97208. Hoffman, Daniel. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972. xvi + 339 pp. $7.95. Lutwack, Leonard. Heroic Fiction: The Epic Tradition...

... interpretation of what has been seen. Time and again, the journalist asks how the crime can be under- stood. Which categories of analysis can be used to inscribe its events? The writer even invokes Edgar Allan Poe to organize our conceptual framework: Edgardo Poe, el sublime borracho Edgardo...

....22For some years, Lowell did not share all of Briggs’s convictions; on the contrary, in his essay on Poe in 1845, Lowell joined in the cry for “a profound, original, and aesthetic criticism,” echoing the creed of the literary nationalists: “But, before we have an American literature, we must...

...” was inspired in part by my own earlier work relating the writing of history and fiction, and it defined my materials in ways that offered important possibilities for difference from preceding accounts of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville.”In defining my procedures, the most important pre- decessor...

... in the kinds of texts under critical analysis and in the guiding thematic that binds them. Chapter 1 begins, as any consideration of detective fiction must, with Edgar Allan Poe’s three gothic-inflected stories from the 1830s. Levay joins the theoretical camp that considers Poe not just (as Baudelaire...