Author: John MayPublisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Presents a fictionalized account of a possible love affair between Edgar Poe and the poet Fanny Osgood.
Poe & Fanny
Author: John MayPublisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Presents a fictionalized account of a possible love affair between Edgar Poe and the poet Fanny Osgood.
Poe
Author: James M. HutchissonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578067213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"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.
Poe and Fanny
Author: John MayPublisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452286016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
Mrs. Poe
Author: Lynn CullenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476702918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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.
The Fall of the House of Poe
Author: Phillip RoderickPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595395678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
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.
Fallen Angel
Author: Robert MorganPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807181072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
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.
Mrs. Poe
Author: Lynn CullenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476702926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
Poe and the Idea of Music
Author: Charity McAdamsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611462053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritual ideal artistic realm. Music brought forth the otherworldly, and spoke to the possible transcendence of the human spirit. Yet, Poe's music differs from these Romantic notions in ways that, although not immediately perceptible in each individual instance, cohere to invert Romantic idealism. For Poe, artistic transcendence is impossible, the metaphysical realm is unreachable, and humans cannot perceive anything but their own failure of spirit. In this book, I show how we can look at Poe's poems and stories on the whole to discover this, and in doing so, unpack some of Poe's mysticism along the way.
Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Jeffrey MeyersPublisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461660955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but exploited author and editor, a man who veered radically from temperance to rampant debauchery, and an agnostic who sought a return to religion at the end of his life. Acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers explores the writer's turbulent life and career, including his marriage and multiple, simultaneous romances, his literary feuds, and his death at an early age under bizarre and troubling circumstances.
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