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"Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of ""The Mask of the Red Death,"" ""The Black Cat,"" and ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"", Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from his suffering and to have suffered from his success. ""The Raven"" and ""The Tell Tale Heart"" have been read as signs of his personal obssesions, and ""The Fall of the House of Usher"" and ""The Decent into the Maelstrom"" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the oppurtunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. This biography devotes itself to fact. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend and described how they were both distorted by prior biographies."

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Author:   Arthur Hobson Quinn ,  Shawn James Rosenheim (Williams College)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.066kg
ISBN:  

9780801857300

ISBN 10:   0801857309
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   20 February 1998
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Chapter 1. The Heritage Chapter 2. Richmond–The Early Years Chapter 3. The School Days in England Chapter 4. Richmond Again, 1820–1826 Chapter 5. The University of Virginia Chapter 6. ""Tamerlane"" and the Army Chapter 7. Hope Deferred – ""Al Aaraaf"" Chapter 8. West Point and the ""Poems"" of 1831 Chapter 9. Baltimore – The Early Fiction Chapter 10. The Editor of the ""Messenger"" Chapter 11. Philadelphia – The ""Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"" Chapter 12. At the Summit – The Editor of ""Graham's Magazine"" Chapter 13. Following the Illusin Chapter 14. New York – ""The Raven"" and Other Matters Chapter 15. The ""Broadway Journal"" and the ""Poems"" of 1845 Chapter 16. Widening Horizons – Friends and Enemies Chapter 17. ""Eureka"" Chapter 18. To Helen and For Annie Chapter 19. Richmond – The Last Appeal Chapter 20. The Recoil of Fate Appendices Bibliography Index"

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Without warning, without any preliminary fanfare of trumpets, a book has now appeared that towers above others of its kind, a book in which resourceful scholarship and a lucid gift of expression are happily joined. I wish I could recapture all I have recklessly said in praise of other books and concentrate it here. --G. F. Whicher, 'Books'

Without warning, without any preliminary fanfare of trumpets, a book has now appeared that towers above others of its kind, a book in which resourceful scholarship and a lucid gift of expression are happily joined. I wish I could recapture all I have recklessly said in praise of other books and concentrate it here. Books

Author Information

Arthur Hobson Quinn (1875-1960) is also the author of American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey and History of the American Drama. Shawn J. Rosenheim is an associate professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Allan Poe to the Internet, also available from Johns Hopkins.

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