Edgar Allan Poe — “The Domain of Arnheim”

Reading copy:

• “The Domain of Arnheim” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “The Landscape-Garden” — 1842, no original manuscript or fragments of this early form are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “The Landscape-Garden” — October 1842 — Ladies Companion — (Mabbott text A1)
• Text-03 — “The Landscape Garden” — September 20, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text B1)
• Text-04 — “The Domain of Arnheim” — November or December 1846 — manuscript — (Mabbott text A)  (A “roll” manuscript, formerly in the collection of William H. Koester, and currently in the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.)
• Text-05 — “The Domain of Arnheim” — March 1847 — Columbian Magazine — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-06 — “The Domain of Arnheim” — 1850 — WORKS — (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• “The Domain of Arnheim” — February 27, 1847 — New England Weekly Review (reprinted from Text-05)  (noted by Ljungquist)
• “The Landscape Garden” — 1856 — WORKS — (Griswold reprints the text from Text-03)  (Mabbott text C1)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for this early form) (Although Griswold printed both “The Domain of Arnheim” and “The Landscape Garden” as separate tales, and Mabbott follows this same practice in Tales and Sketches, they are really just two versions of the same story.)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “The Domain of Arnheim” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (2:92-112)
• “The Landscape Garden” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:259-271, and 4:320)
• “The Domain of Arnheim” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:176-196, and 6:295)
• “The Landscape Garden” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:700-713)
• “The Domain of Arnheim” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1266-1285)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• ”“The Domain of Arnheim” — comparative text (manuscript revisions of 1846)

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None.

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Le domaine d‘Arnheim” — 1865 — Histoires grotesques et sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
• ”Le jardin paysage” — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (French translation by Léon Lemonnier of “The Lanscape-Garden”)

• Achilles, Jochen, “Edgar Allan Poe’s Dreamscapes and the Transcendentalist View of Nature,” Amerikastudien/American Studies, 1995, 40:553-573
• 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.
• Hess, Jeffrey A., “Sources and Aesthetics of Poe’s Landscape Fiction,” American Quarterly (Summer 1970), 22:177-189.
• Horn, Andrew, “ ‘A Refined Thebaid‘: Wealth and Social Disengagement in Poe’s ‘The Domain of Arnheim’,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (1981), 27:191-197.
• Jeffrey, David K., “The Johnsonian Influence: Rasselas and Poe’s ‘The Domain of Arnheim’,” Poe Newsletter (December 1970), 3:26-29.
• Kehler, Joel R., “New  Light on the Genesis and Program of Poe’s Landscape Fiction,” American Literature (1975), 47:173-183.
• Ljungquist, Kent P.
• 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.
• Mize, George E., “The Matter of Taste in Poe’s ‘Domain of Arnheim’ and ‘Landor’s Cottage’,” Connecticut Review (1972), 6:93-99.
• 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.