Narrator (unnamed) - The narrator in this story is chiefly an observer. He is identified only as a
friend of Mr. Ellison.
Mr. Ellison - The main protagonist. No first name is given.
Mrs. Ellison - Mentioned as Mr. Ellison’s wife, noted only as “the loveliest and most
devoted of women.” No first name is given.
Mr. Seabright Ellison - Mentioned as a somewhat distant relative of Mr. Ellison. He has left the fortune which Mr. Ellison
is so fortunate as to inherit. He has been dead for about 100 years by the time Mr. Ellison is born.
Setting:
Location - Under development.
Date - Under development.
Summary:
Under development.
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Reading and Reference Texts:
Reading copy:
“The Domain of Arnheim” — reading copy
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Historical Texts:
Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
Text-01 — “The Landscape-Garden” — 1842, no original manuscript or fragments of this
early form are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
Text-03 — “The Landscape Garden” — September 20,
1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text B1) (For Griswold’s 1856 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)
Text-04 — “The Domain of Arnheim” — November or
December 1846 — “Goldsmith” manuscript — (Mabbott text A) (A “roll” manuscript,
formerly in the collection of William H. Koester, and currently in the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.)
“The Domain of Arnheim” — February 27, 1847 — New England Weekly Review
(reprinted from Text-05) (noted by Ljungquist)
“The Landscape Garden” — 1856 — WORKS —
(Griswold reprints the text from Text-03) (Mabbott text C1) (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for this early form)
(Although Griswold printed both “The Domain of Arnheim” and “The Landscape Garden” as separate tales, and
Mabbott follows this same practice in Tales and Sketches, they are really just two versions of the same story.)
“The Domain of Arnheim” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, first series
(New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 388-403 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe’s Works. It
was reprinted several times.)
“The Domain of Arnheim” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram,
vol. 1, pp. 303-319 (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“The Domain of Arnheim” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2:
Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (2:92-112)
“The Landscape Garden” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales
III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:259-271, and 4:320)
“The Domain of Arnheim” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales
V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:176-196, and 6:295)
“The Landscape Garden” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales
& Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:700-713)
“The Domain of Arnheim” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3:
Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1266-1285)
“The Domain of Arnheim” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F.
Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 855-870
“Le domaine d‘Arnheim” — 1865 — Histoires grotesques et sérieuses,
Paris: Michel Lévy frères (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
”Le jardin paysage” — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse
par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (French translation by Léon Lemonnier of “The
Lanscape-Garden”)
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Bibliography:
Achilles, Jochen, “Edgar Allan Poe’s Dreamscapes and the Transcendentalist View of Nature,”
Amerikastudien/American Studies, 1995, 40:553-573
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.
Hess, Jeffrey A., “Sources and Aesthetics of Poe’s Landscape Fiction,” American
Quarterly (Summer 1970), 22:177-189.
Horn, Andrew, “ ‘A Refined Thebaid‘: Wealth and Social Disengagement in Poe’s ‘The
Domain of Arnheim’,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (1981), 27:191-197.
Jeffrey, David K., “The Johnsonian Influence: Rasselas and Poe’s ‘The Domain of
Arnheim’,” Poe Newsletter (December 1970), 3:26-29.
Kehler, Joel R., “New Light on the Genesis and Program of Poe’s Landscape Fiction,”
American Literature (1975), 47:173-183.
Ljungquist, Kent P.
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Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
Mize, George E., “The Matter of Taste in Poe’s ‘Domain of Arnheim’ and
‘Landor’s Cottage’,” Connecticut Review (1972), 6:93-99.
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