Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, (1975), title page and table of contents

Notes:

Technically, the contents of this dissertation are protected by copyright, but with Kenneth Walter Cameron himself having died in 2006, at the age of 97, and having never married or had children, there is no readily identifiable heir or estate. Nor has his publishing arm, Transcendental Books, been aborbed into any larger company. Consequently, it has not been possible to secure formal permission. This text, then, is presented under a broad assumption of fair use, and with the idea that Dr. Cameron and Dr. Benton would have been pleased to have their work widely available for use, for educational purposes and without any charge for access. If a reasonable claim for copyright can be documented, please contact the Poe Society of Baltimore to arrange for permission, or to request that we remove the material.

Because the original material was prepared on a ordinary typewriter, with very little available in regard to formatting options, some liberties have been taken in this electronic presentation for the sake of improved appearance and readability. The use of underlines, for example, has been interpreted as indicating italics. In some cases, the rather eccentric formatting has been normalized as much as possible, for the benefit of the reader.

The current presentation combines the two sections of introductory material from Benton's 1973 reproduction edition of Eureka, with line numbers. The text of Eureka itself has not been reproduced since that is fully available elsewhere on this website, with text from the original 1848 edition. There are copies of the symposium that were bound together with the earlier facsimile edition.