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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Assignation” — reading copy — based on Text 00 Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: “The Visionary” — 1832, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 “The Visionary” — January 1834 — The Lady's Book — Text 02 (Mabbott text A) “The Visionary” — July 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03 (Mabbott text B) “The Visionary” — 1839 — manuscript revisions in Southern Literary Messenger — Text 04 (Mabbott text C) “The Visionary” — 1840 — TGA — Text 05 (Mabbott text D) “The Assignation” — 1842 — manuscript title revision in TGAPP (volume II, which seems to have had revisions by Poe, is lost. but this version is presumably recorded in Text 07) — Text 06 “The Assignation” — June 7, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 07 (Mabbott text E) Reprints: “The Visionary” — December 1840 — Bentley's Miscellany (from Text 05, unacknowledged) “The Assignation”— 1850, text "F" — WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text 07 (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) (although the Griswold text contains numerous changes in punctuation, these appear to be editorial and typographical rather than authorial changes, and a number of them are not improvements) “The Assignation” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, first series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 370-381 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe's Works. It was reprinted several times.) “The Assignation” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms) “The Assignation” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:258-273) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms) “The Assignation” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:1-109-124, and 2:345-348) “The Assignation” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:148-169) “The Assignation” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 200-211 Associated Material and Special versions: “Le rendez-vous” — 1862 — Contes inedts d'Edgar Poe, Paris: J. Hetzel  (French translation by William L. Hughes) “[The Assignation]” — 1881 — Underliga historier (Stockholm)  (Swedish translation, noted by Anderson, p. 54) "Le Rendez-vous" — 1934 — Les Sphinx et autres contes bizarres par Edgar Poë, Paris: Galliard (French translation by Maurice Sachs) "Le Visionnaire (Le Rendez-vous)" — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier  (French translation by Léon Lemonnier) “The Assignation” — 1952 — a possible film adaptation directed by Joseph Losey, but unseen and perhaps merely a coincidental title (see Smith, p. 83).

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Bibliography: Anderson, Carl L., Poe in Northlight: The Scandanavian Response to His Life and Work, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1973. Benton, Richard P., "Is Poe's 'The Assignation' a Hoax?," Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Sept. 1963), 18:193-197. Cobb, Palmer, "The Influence of E. A. T. Hoffman on the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe," Studies in Philology, 1908, 3:1-104 Dixon, Jeanne, "Poe: A Borrowing from Goldsmith," Notes & Queries (Nov. 12, 1932), 163:350 Engstrom, Alfred G., "Chateaubriand's Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem and Poe's 'The Assignation'," Modern Language Notes (Nov. 1954), 69:506-507 Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943. Ketterer, David, "The Sexual Abyss: Consumation in 'The Assignation'," Poe Studies (1986), 19:7-10 Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. Pahl, Dennis, "Recovering Byron: Poe's 'The Assignation'," Criticism (1984), 26:211-229 Pitcher, Edward W., "Poe's 'The Assignation': A Reconsideration," Poe Studies (1980), 13:1-4 Smith, Don. G., The Poe Cinema, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1999. Whitt, Celia, "Poe and The Mysteries of Udolpho," University of Texas Studies in English (1937), 18:124-131 Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338. Zorzi, Rosella Mamoli, "The Text Is the City: The Representation of Venice in Two Tales by Irving and Poe and a Novel by Cooper," Revista d'Studi Anglo-Americani (1990), 6:285-300

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