Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu (1990), title page and table of contents


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Title page:

 

 

POE AND HIS TIMES
The Artist and His Milieu

Edited by

Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV

 

BALTIMORE: THE EDGAR ALLAN POE SOCIETY, INC.

 

 



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Table of Contents

Contents

                                  [[PAGE]]
Acknowledgements    xi
Key to Recurring References    xii
Introduction
  (Benjamin F. Fisher IV)
   xiii
Poe and Washington Allston: Visionary Kin
  Glen A. Omans
   1
“Poe, Locke and Kant
  Joan Dayan
   30
Poe and the Blackwood’s Tale of Sensation
  Bruce I. Weiner
   45
In Search of Truth and Beauty: Allegory in “Berenice” and “The Domain of Arnheim”
  Liliane Weissberg
   66
“Visionary Wings”: Art and Metaphysics in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hans Pfaall”
  Maurice J. Bennett
   76
Prose Run Mad: An Early Criticism of Poe’s Politian
  David K. Jackson
   88
Poe and the Will
  April Selley
   94
The Corpse Within Us
  Steven E. Kagle
   103
Poe’s “Ligeia”: Debts to Irving and Emerson
  Jerry A. Herndon
   113
Emerson, Thoreau, and Poe’s “Double Dupin”
  Stanton Garner
   130
Usher’s Nervous Fever: The Meaning of Medicine in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
  David E. E. Sloane
   146
Poe’s Chapters on “Natural Magic”
  Roberta Sharp
   154
Poe’s Pym-Esque “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains”
  Richard Kopley
   167
“Eleonora” Poe and Madness
  Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV
   178
“The Raven” and “The Bracelets”
  E. Kate Stewart
   189
The Raven and the Nightingale
  David H. Hirsch
   194
Theme and Parody in “The Raven”
  Dennis W. Eddings
   209
Edgar Allan Poe in France: Baudelaire’s Labor of Love
  Gary Wayne Harner
   218
Elegy for a “Rebel Soul”: Henry Clay Preuss and the Poe Debate
  J. Gerald Kennedy
   226
Elizabeth Oakes Smith on Poe: A Chapter in the Recovery of His Nineteenth-Century Reputation
  Kent Ljungquist and Cameron Nickles
   235
Henry James and the Question of Poe’s Maturity
  James W. Gargano
   247
In Defense of Beauty: Stedman and the Recognition of Poe in America, 1880-1910
  Robert J. Scholnick
   256
Contributors    277
Index    281

 


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In Memory of
Emma L. Shoener
and
Susannna Tye


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