The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393972856)

In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery.

Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe's poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.

A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN-10: 0393972852
ISBN-13: 9780393972856
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 1024
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.99lbs
Size: 9.22h x 5.62w x 1.20d