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Edgar Allan Poe Review
Number of Followers: 1 ![]() ISSN (Print) 2150-0428 - ISSN (Online) 2166-2932 Published by Penn State University Press ![]() |
- Entro(Poe)tics: Darkness, Decay, and the Heat Death of the Universe
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Abstract: That there is a crucial relationship between Poe’s writings and formulations of the second law of thermodynamics in the later nineteenth century is not a new idea; the nature of this relationship, however, is as elusive of definition as it is inescapable of suggestion. While there have been a few prior and partial critical attempts to define the relationship between Poe’s writings and the emergence of the second law, which Austrian physicist Rudolf Clausius named entropy, these have failed to account for the three crucial considerations developed here. The first is that Poe’s entropic apparitions form part of his broader exploration of a principle of cosmic deterioration, one present from early poems like “The ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Poe and the Asylum
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Abstract: Despite Poe’s persistent interest in insanity beginning as early as “Metzengerstein” in 1832, Poe’s “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” is his only tale to depict an asylum. Twenty-first-century scholarship has tended to read this story as oblique commentary on different political issues, including slavery,1 the French Revolution,2 and the Irish famine.3 These allegorical readings are compelling; however, the story is also and more directly a rare fictive engagement by a U.S. author of this period with the emergent and quickly expanding professional treatment of insanity. A close look at the evidence indicates that Poe may have been working on this story longer and later than has been assumed and that ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- “The Raven” and the Antebellum Culture of Bereavement
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Abstract: Ever since it first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845, and in the February issue of the American Review—followed by multiple reprintings in other publications and inclusion in Wiley and Putnam’s November 1845 edition of Poe’s poetry—“The Raven” has become one of the most familiar and indeed iconic poems in American literature. Eliza Richards and Paul Lewis have documented the broad cultural response that Poe’s poem inspired in the plethora of imitations, parodies, and adaptations in popular culture during Poe’s lifetime and throughout the nineteenth century, while also provoking a host of accusations of unacknowledged collaboration, borrowing, theft, and plagiarism. Yet despite its wide ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Painterly Poe: Architect, Artist, Author
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Abstract: “If ever mortal painted an idea,” writes the narrator of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” then “that mortal was Roderick Usher” (H 3:283).1 Usher’s use of the visual medium to convey “ideas” proves an uncanny parallel to author Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, which exploit narrative entertainment to illustrate his aesthetic philosophy. Poe’s tales often feature characters producing works of art, ranging from the visual and textual productions of Roderick Usher to the architectural constructs of the villainous Montressor. The artistic acts Poe describes in his tales variously figure the authorial process as architectural, visual, and textual praxis, a narrative explication of Poe’s use of thick metaphor to describe ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Cuenca Family: Two Visions of Poe in Spain
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Abstract: A number of recent publications have explored Poe’s reception in Spain within the particular historical frameworks of the Second Republic, the Civil War, and the postbellum scenario.1 Despite political and social turmoil, the decades of the 1930s and the 1940s witnessed the publication and republication of several Poe collections that surpass in quality prior and later publications.2 Spanish cinema historian, aesthete, and Fascist dilettante Carlos Fernández Cuenca (1904–1977) and his grand-nephew Luis Alberto de Cuenca (born in 1950), poet and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of History, wrote introductions for Edgar Allan Poe’s texts.Carlos Fernández Cuenca was involved in the creation of Fascist groups in ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Another “Lost” Fragment of Poe’s
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Abstract: Two decades ago, I presented for the first time the full text of a long roll manuscript of “Marginalia” that Poe wrote in 1848 (“A Lost Roll of ‘Marginalia,’” Edgar Allan Poe Review 3 [Fall 2002]: 52–72). Although clearly prepared in a final form, it was never published during Poe’s lifetime. At the time, I was aware that the manuscript had been broken up and sold as isolated fragments. Indeed, it was in tracing the history of these individual fragments that I came to determine that they were all connected and eventually that they had come from a manuscript that had been in the possession of Edmund Clarence Stedman. It was with that understanding that I sought and was gratified to find a full transcript of the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- A Conversation about Poe’s “Eiros and Charmion”
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Abstract: This story presents an interesting example of the difficulty of assigning the precise sequence of a series of text versions. The official publication order of “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” as listed by T. O. Mabbott (Tales and Sketches, 1978, 2:455) is:text A: December 1839, Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazinetext B: 1840, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesquetext C: April 1, 1843, Philadelphia Saturday Museumtext D: 1845, TalesAll of these versions give the same title except the 1843 printing, which alone substitutes “The Destruction of the World.” Mabbott also includes the text printed in 1850 by R. W. Griswold, although he uses the 1845 version as his copy text, noting that “Griswold’s version (E) was taken ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- “The Pit and the Pendulum” Inspires Medical Evacuation
Helicopter Rescue Approaches-
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Abstract: Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” written approximately a decade after his studies at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), has inspired new approaches for medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) helicopter rescues. A MEDEVAC helicopter rescue is conducted by attaching a patient to the end of a cable and reeling the cable upward to retrieve the patient into the helicopter. The cable needs to shorten, and the oscillation needs to decrease. In “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the narrator observes an increasing oscillation as the cable length increases. In our article, we apply variable length sling hoist control approaches at specific points in time of the swing. In this way, a cable can be stabilized and lead to controlled ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Alexandra
Urakova (review)-
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Abstract: Alexandra Urakova’s intriguingly titled Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature is part of a series, “American Literature Readings in the 21st Century,” which, according to a synopsis adjacent to the book’s title page, “publishes works by contemporary authors that help shape critical opinion regarding American literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries” (ii). Dangerous Giving clearly belongs in this series given its comprehensive and well-annotated examination of gifts and “giving” in a wide range of nineteenth-century American texts. The intriguing part of the book’s title, of course, is the word “dangerous.” How can “giving” be “dangerous”' The assertion ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark
Dawidziak (review)-
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Abstract: Mark Dawidziak’s text is ideal for a general audience with a moderately extensive knowledge of the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe. This biography will delight those who already know enough about Poe to catch most references but wish to know more. The monograph reads like a work of fiction and will entice the general public who may be familiar only with the lore surrounding the mainstream accepted events that have marked Poe’s life. Dawidziak’s text will also be useful to students in master’s and PhD programs as well as budding scholars. This biography, however, may not be entirely relevant to seasoned Poe scholars. The author looks at Poe from a unique perspective but does not unveil elements of Poe’s life that ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise
of the Critic by Adam Gordon (review)-
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Abstract: Adam Gordon’s Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic examines the emergence of the literary critic and the significance of critical forms in early nineteenth-century America as illustrated by such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rufus Griswold, Edgar A. Poe, Margaret Fuller, and Frederick Douglass. According to Gordon, antebellum America witnessed the growing prominence of “a new sort of cultural figure,” that is, “the professional literary critic,” whose writings contributed uniquely to “the expanding print culture” of the period and assumed various forms to suit their aims and their modes of publication (2). Gordon’s central argument is that we, as literary ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Edgar Allan Poe: A Scrapbook ed. by Brandon A. Fullam (review)
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Abstract: The subtitle of this publication is “Clippings, Records, Notices, and Documents Pertaining to His Life and Parentage from 1788 to 1849.” This is not a biography of Poe, nor was it meant to be. It is a comprehensive collation of Poeiana that has something to offer both the Poe scholar and the curious Poe enthusiast.It is not clear who the intended reader is meant to be, however, and perhaps that is not the point. This self-published collection pleases itself and answers to no one. It is plainly a labor of love by the author and a worthy attempt to collect and organize certain Poe-related ephemera. With “[n]early 500 images of Poe-related notices, documents, official records, letters, and newspaper clippings, all ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Poe’s “Origin Story”' Reflections on The Pale Blue
Eye (review)-
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Abstract: The Pale Blue Eye was released in select cinemas on December 23, 2022, and arrived on Netflix on January 6, 2023. It is incumbent upon me to provide the usual “spoiler alert” to those readers who have not yet viewed the film but might want to; be warned, especially, that the identity of the movie’s murderer is revealed herein. I shall not take up space with a plot summary but would, instead, direct the reader’s attention to the solid Wikipedia entry on the movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale_Blue_Eye). The entry also provides a list of characters and the actors playing them.In an online interview, director and screenwriter Scott Cooper provided his thoughts on the creative function of The Pale Blue Eye: ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Critical Insights: Edgar Allan Poe by Robert C. Evans (review)
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Abstract: Critical Insights: Edgar Allan Poe provides valuable contributions to the ever- expanding body of literature on various aspects of Poe’s works. Besides including critical and analytical scholarship on Poe’s tales and poetry, the volume provides a nuanced reading of the illustrations depicting the major fires that occurred in New York in the early nineteenth century and their influence on Poe’s work. Apart from Poe scholars and researchers, people interested in history, the arts, illustrations, and gender studies can benefit from the volume.In the preliminary section, “About This Volume,” the editor, Robert C. Evans, outlines the arguments of all included essays and the critical approaches each author has applied to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Poe in Richmond: The Code Duello and Poe
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Abstract: Poe begins his tale “The Cask of Amontillado” with the line, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (M 3:1252–66). Although it might be difficult for today’s readers to understand how a mere insult can justify ending someone’s life, such a concept was commonplace in the Richmond in which Poe spent his formative years and began his career in journalism.In fact, an insufficiently warm greeting might turn deadly. As English author Alexander Mackay (1808–1852) reported in his 1851 travelog, The Western World; or, Travels in the United States in 1846–74,An offense which elsewhere would be regarded as one of homeopathic proportions, is very apt ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Poe in Cyberspace: AI, Now and Then
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Abstract: The communication revolution of the 1830s—combining the steam press, the telegraph, the daguerreotype, and the computing calculator—expanded both the media audience and its subject matter, promoting Poe’s career by opening new subjects for magazine fiction and also new kinds of literary criticism.One of the few writers of his generation to feel at home with the new technologies, Poe credited his interest in them with the creation of some of his own favorite works. “Ligea,” he began—quickly inserting an immediate surprise —was “undoubtedly the best story I have written—besides Scheherazade” (PL 616). Of course, few contemporary editors, critics, and readers understood the many discoveries and inventions Poe ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Critical Reassessments: Poe’s Literary Battles by Sidney Moss
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Abstract: Edgar Allan Poe often denounced and mocked other writers in harsh terms, leading James Russell Lowell to famously remark that Poe, when reviewing, “seems sometimes to mistake his phial of prussic-acid for his inkstand.”1 To explain Poe’s vitriol, many critics early in the twentieth century turned to psychoanalysis. For example, Lorine Pruette credited Poe’s acerbity to his will to power and suggested that his love of beauty was motivated by “the maximation of his ego-consciousness.”2 Joseph Wood Krutch similarly argued that Poe’s critical reasoning was “an elaborate rationalization whose real function is to support a predetermined taste” and that this taste sprung from Poe’s inborn psychological maladies.3In his ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Poe Studies Association Updates
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Abstract: The Poe Studies Association sponsored two panels and held its annual business meeting at the 34th Annual Conference on American Literature hosted by the American Literature Association at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, May 25–27, 2023. I am pleased to report that the back-to-back sessions—“Teaching Poe and/during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (chaired by Renata Phillipov) and “Maritime Poe: Seafaring, Oceanic, and ‘Blue’ Studies” (chaired by Margarida Vale de Gato)—were outstanding, highly engaging, and well attended (with approximately twenty-five audience members present at each).At our business meeting, held immediately after our two sessions, I had the honor of congratulating Immediate Past President Amy Branam ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Abstracts for MLA Panels
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Abstract: Roundtable: “Revisiting The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”Micah Donohue, Eastern New Mexico University, “Anthologies and Archipelagoes: The Antho- Archipelagic Poetics of Poe’s Pym”Anthologies—Emron Esplin and Margarida Vale de Gato write—“direct how texts are to be interpreted within larger assemblages.” Anthologizing Poe (2021) explores how Poe’s works are arranged into countless “larger assemblages” by editors and anthologizers around the world. Esplin and Vale de Gato’s image of expanding anthological constructions also provides an apt representation of Poe’s combinatorial poetics. Poe may have been “an anthologizer of himself ” (Harry Lee Poe), but as a writer he was unquestionably an anthologizer of others ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- Erratum
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Abstract: The first relates to the following sentence found in the Abstract: “As the author has done in connection with ‘The Cask of Amontillado,’ this article offers a generalized biographical interpretation of this 1849 story, linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay ‘Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House’ with its emphasis on ‘fat,’ exploitive ‘editors and proprietors,’ as well as his September 1845 ‘Marginalia’ piece about the sorry state of the American publishing industry.” *See John Gruesser, Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019), esp. chap. 2, “Outside Looking In: Poe and New York City,” 21–38. See also Gruesser and Travis Montgomery, “Scribblers and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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- From the Editor
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Abstract: The following note from the Penn State Press Journals Manager Julie Lambert includes new pricing for the Poe Review beginning in 2024 as well as an update on Scholarly Publishing Collective:Things are continuing to move smoothly since the Scholarly Publishing Collective was formed two years ago. We’ve seen subscriptions up-ticking and have had some great feedback from our users. I hope you’ve been able to familiarize yourself with the new site. I personally enjoy looking at the ‘Most Read’ articles and tracking the ‘Total Views.’ . . . Institutional subscriptions, for most titles, will see a 5 percent increase while individual subscription rates will increase by 3 percent. While we aim to keep prices stable, this ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-19T00:00:00-05:00
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