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Author: John May Publisher: Plume Books ISBN: 9780452286016 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
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A richly imagined debut novel, Poe & Fanny brings New York's giddy pre-Civil War social scene into brilliant focus as it explores the tragic life and loves of one of America's great literary figures.
Author: John May Publisher: Plume Books ISBN: 9780452286016 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
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A richly imagined debut novel, Poe & Fanny brings New York's giddy pre-Civil War social scene into brilliant focus as it explores the tragic life and loves of one of America's great literary figures.
Author: Lynn Cullen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476702918 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Author: James M. Hutchisson Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781578067213 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 316
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"Poe reclaims the Baltimore and Virginia writer's reputation and power, retracing Poe's life and career. James M. Hutchisson captures the boisterous worlds of literary New York and Philadelphia in the 1800s to understand why Poe wrote the way he did and why his achievement was so important to American literature. The biography presents a critical overview of Poe's major works and his main themes, techniques, and imaginative preoccupations." "This portrait of the writer emphasizes Poe's southern identity. It traces his existence as a workaday journalist in the burgeoning magazine era and later his tremendous authority as a literary critic and cultural arbiter. To counter the long-lasting damage done by Poe's literary enemies, Hutchisson explores the far-reaching, posthumous influence Poe's literary and critical work exerted on the sister arts and on modern writers from Nietzsche to Nabokov."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Erica Jong Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393324358 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 548
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"Jong . . . filled a gap in the great tradition of the picaresque novel. . . . Linguistically, "Fanny" is a tower of strength. . . . Jong has gone farther than Joyce."--Anthony Burgess, "Saturday Review."
Author: Robert Morgan Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807181072 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 397
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Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of this gifted, complicated author. Focusing on Poe’s personal relationships, Morgan chronicles how several women influenced his life and art. Eliza Poe, his mother, died before he turned three, but she haunted him ever after. The loss of Elmira Royster Shelton, his first and last love, devastated him and inspired much of his poetry. Morgan shows that Poe, known for his gothic and supernatural writing, was also a poet of the natural world who helped invent the detective story, science fiction, analytical criticism, and symbolist aesthetics. Though he died at age forty, Poe left behind works of great originality and vision that Fallen Angel explores with depth and feeling.
Author: Phillip Roderick Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595395678 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 94
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Why was Edgar Allan Poe unable to form either emotional or sexual bonds with the women in his life? Why did he worship at the grave of his friend's mother-a woman he may have loved but who he could have never been intimate with? Why did he marry his 13 year-old cousin and what impact did her tragic death have on his literary creations? Why do the female characters in his short stories endure disturbingly sadistic punishment and torture at the hands of an almost overtly mad husband or acquaintance? Through both a feminist and psychoanalytic analysis, The Fall of the House of Poe attempts to explain Poe's morbid treatment of the female characters in his short stories by examining his own disturbingly tragic experiences with women throughout his short life. Ultimately this book elucidates unequivocally the acute psychological motivations for Poe's profoundly psychoanalytic tales of horror and imagination.
Author: Kenneth Silverman Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 9780060923310 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 596
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From a Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer, the most revealing, fascinating, and important biography of one of our greatest literary figures.