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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “Berenice” — reading copy — based on Text 00 Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: “Berenice — A Tale”  — 1834, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 “Berenice — A Tale”  — March 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02  (Mabbott text A) “Berenice — A Tale”  —  1838 — manuscript revisions in "Duane" copy of  Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03  (Mabbott text B) “Berenice”  — 1840 — TGA — Text 04  (Mabbott text C) “The Teeth”  — 1842 — unused manuscript title revision in TGAPP — Text 05 “Berenice”  — April 5, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 06  (Mabbott text D) “Berenice”  — 1850 — WORKS — Text 07  (Mabbott text E)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) Reprints: “Berenice” — April 11, 1845 — The Spirit of the Times  (from "D") “Berenice” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:157-168) “Berenice” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:16-26, and 2:313-318) “Berenice” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:207-221) Associated Material and Special versions: “Bérénice” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire) “Bérénice” — April 17, 1852 — L'Illustration “Bérénice” — August 2, 1854 — Le Pays “Bérénice” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères “Bérénice” — 1885 — Oeuvres Choisies d'Edgar Pöe, Paris: A. Hennuyer  (French translation by William L. Hughes) “Berenice” — December 1, 1947 — a radio show broadcast on The Inner Sanctum show, with Karl Swenson (As was often the case with dramatic presentations of Poe's works, the story has been modified.)

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Bibliography: Abel, Darrel, "Coleridge's 'Life-in-Death' and Poe's 'Death-in-Life'," Notes & Queries (May 1955), 200:218-220 Baudelaire, Charles, Baudelaire on Poe, translated and edited by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop, Pennsylvania: Bald Eagle Press, 1952 (includes Baudelaire's preface to "Berenice") Blythe, Hal and Charlie Sweet, "Poe's Satiric Use of Vampirism in 'Berenice'," Poe Studies (1981), 14:23-24 Brown, Arthur A., "Literature and the Impossibility of Death: Poe's 'Berenice'," Nineteenth-Century Literature, March 1996, 50:448-463 Brown, Arthur A., 'A Man Who Dies': Poe, James, Faulkner and the Narrative Function of Death, PhD disseration, University of California, Davis, 1995 Davidson, Frank, "A Note on Poe's 'Berenice'," American Literature (May 1913), 11:212-213 Dayan, Joan, "The Identity of Berenice, Poe's Idol of the Mind," Studies in Romanticism (1984), 23:491-513 Forclaz, Roger, "A Source for 'Berenice' and a Note on Poe's Reading," Poe Newsletter (Oct. 1968), 1:25-27 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. 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. Porte, Joel, The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and James, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1969, pp. 53-94. Sloan, David E. E., "Gothic Romanticism and Rational Empiricism in Poe's 'Berenice'," American Transcendental Quarterly (Summer 1973), 19:19-26 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. Ziolkowski, Theodore, "The Telltale Teeth: Psychodontia to Sociodrama," Publications of the Modern Language Association (1976), 91:9-22

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