Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Papers - Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu (1990)

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POE AND HIS TIMES
The Artist and His Milieu

Edited by

Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV

BALTIMORE: THE EDGAR ALLAN POE SOCIETY, INC.

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Acknowledgements				xi
Key to Recurring References				xii
Introduction (Benjamin F. Fisher IV)				xiii
Poe and Washington Allston: Visionary Kin Glen A. Omans				1
“Poe, Locke and Kant Joan Dayan				30
Poe and the Blackwood’s Tale of Sensation Bruce I. Weiner				45
In Search of Truth and Beauty: Allegory in “Berenice” and “The Domain of Arnheim” Liliane Weissberg				66
“Visionary Wings”: Art and Metaphysics in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hans Pfaall” Maurice J. Bennett				76
Prose Run Mad: An Early Criticism of Poe’s Politian David K. Jackson				88
Poe and the Will April Selley				94
The Corpse Within Us Steven E. Kagle				103
Poe’s “Ligeia”: Debts to Irving and Emerson Jerry A. Herndon				113
Emerson, Thoreau, and Poe’s “Double Dupin” Stanton Garner				130
Usher’s Nervous Fever: The Meaning of Medicine in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” David E. E. Sloane				146
Poe’s Chapters on “Natural Magic” Roberta Sharp				154
Poe’s Pym-Esque “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains” Richard Kopley				167
“Eleonora” Poe and Madness Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV				178
“The Raven” and “The Bracelets” E. Kate Stewart				189
The Raven and the Nightingale David H. Hirsch				194
Theme and Parody in “The Raven” Dennis W. Eddings				209
Edgar Allan Poe in France: Baudelaire’s Labor of Love Gary Wayne Harner				218
Elegy for a “Rebel Soul”: Henry Clay Preuss and the Poe Debate J. Gerald Kennedy				226
Elizabeth Oakes Smith on Poe: A Chapter in the Recovery of His Nineteenth-Century Reputation Kent Ljungquist and Cameron Nickles				235
Henry James and the Question of Poe’s Maturity James W. Gargano				247
In Defense of Beauty: Stedman and the Recognition of Poe in America, 1880-1910 Robert J. Scholnick				256
Contributors				277
Index				281

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In Memory of
Emma L. Shoener
and
Susannna Tye

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