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Edgar Allan Poe — “The Man that was Used Up”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “The Man that was Used Up” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "The Man that was Used Up" — 1839, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "The Man that was Used Up" — August 1839 — Burton's — Text 02 (Mabbott text A)
  • "The Man that was Used Up" — 1842 — TGAPP — Text 04 (Mabbott text C)
  • "The Man that was Used Up"  — August 9, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 06 (Mabbott text E)

Reprints:
  • "The Man That Was Used Up" — September 9, 1843 — The New Mirror  (unauthorized abridgement from Text 05)
  • "The Man That Was Used Up" —  September 12-13, 1845 — The Spirit of the Times)
    • "The Man That Was Used Up" — Part I   (September 12, 1845)
    • "The Man That Was Used Up" — Part II  (September 13, 1845)
  • “The Man that was Used Up” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:44-57) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
  • “The Man that was Used Up” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales II, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (3:259-272, and 3:335-338)
  • “The Man that was Used Up” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:378-392)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • “Un homme usé” — 1862 — Contes inedts d'Edgar Poe, Paris: J. Hetzel  (French translation by William L. Hughes)
  • "L'homme tout usé" — 1914 — Edgar Poe: Histories étranges et Merrveilleuses, Paris: Mercure de France (French translation by M. D. Calvocoressi)











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Bibliography:
  • Abel, Darrell, "Le Sage's Limping Devil and Mrs. Bullfrog," Notes & Queries, April 1953, 198:165-166.
  • Alekna, Richard A., " 'The Man That Was Used Up': Further Notes on Poe's Satirical Targets," Poe Studies, 1979, 12:36
  • Curran, Robert T., "The Fashionable Thirties: Poe's Satire in 'The Man That Was Used Up'," Markham Review, 1978, 8:14-20
  • Hatvary, George E., "Introduction," Edgar Allan Poe's Prose Romances: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Man That Was Used Up (a photographic facsimile edition),  eds. George E. Hatvary and Thomas Ollive Mabbott, New York: St. John's University Press,1968, pp. i-vi
  • 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.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, "Poe's 'The Man That Was Used Up'," Explicator, April 1967, vol. 25, item 70
  • 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.
  • Mead, Joan Tyler, "Poe's 'The Man That Was Used Up': Another Bugaboo Campaign," Studies in Short Fiction, 1986, 23:281-286.
  • Mooney, Stephen L., "The Comic in Poe's Fiction," American Literature, January 1962, 33:433-441.
  • Pry, Elmer L., "A Folklore Source for 'The Man That Was Used Up," Poe Studies, 1975, 8:46
  • Purdy, S. B., "Poe and Dostoyevsky," Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1967, 4:169-171.
  • Rouge, Bertrand, "La Pratique des corps limites chez Poe: La Verite sur le cas de 'The Man That Was Used Up," Poetique, 1984, 15:473-488
  • Varner, Cornelia, "Notes on Poe's Use of Contemporary Materials in Certain of his Stories," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, January 1933, 32:77-80.
  • Wetzel, George, "The Source of Poe's 'The Man That Was Used Up'," Notes & Queries, January 1953, 198:38.
  • 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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