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Edgar Allan Poe — “The Devil in the Belfry”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “The Devil in the Belfry” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • "The Devil in the Belfry. An Extravaganza." — 1839, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "The Devil in the Belfry. An Extravaganza."  — May 18, 1839 — Saturday Chronicle — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)
  • "The Devil in the Belfry"  — 1840 — manuscript revision in "Pedder" copy of TGA — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "The Devil in the Belfry" — 1842, text "D"— TGAPP — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)

Reprints:

  • "The Devil in the Belfry"  — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 06  (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)
  • “The Devil in the Belfry” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:103-114) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
  • “The Devil in the Belfry” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales II, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (3:247-257, and 3:333-335)
  • “The Devil in the Belfry” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:362-378)

Associated Material and Special versions:

  • “Le diable dans le beffroi” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
    • “Le diable dans le beffroi” — September 20, 1854 — Le Pays
    • “Le diable dans le beffroi” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères













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Bibliography:
  • Bachinger, Katrina E., "The Aesthetics of (Not) Keeping in Step: Reading the Consumer Mobocracy of Poe's 'The Devil in the Belfry' against Peacock," Modern Language Quarterly (1990), 51:513-533.
  • Eddings, Dennis W., "Poe's Tell-Tale Clocks," Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1994.
  • Forbes, Christopher J., "Satire of Irving's A History of New York in Poe's 'The Devil in the Belfry'," Studies in American Fiction (1982), 10:93-100.
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Lynch, James J., "The Devil in the Writings of Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe," New York Folklore Quarterly (Summer 1952), 8:111-113.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • Weber, Jean-Paul, "Edgar Poe on the Theme of the Clock," La Nouvelle Revue Francais (August-September 1958), 68:301-311 and 69:498-508.
  • Whipple, William, "Poe's Political Satire," University of Texas Studies in English (1956), 35:81-95.
  • Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.





 
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