Narrator (unnamed) - The narrator in this story is chiefly an observer. His name is
not given.
Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith - The hero of Bugaboo and Kickapoo Indian
Wars; a downright fire-eater; prodigies of valor; why, he's the man . . .
etc. - xx
Setting:
Location - Under development.
Date - Under development.
Summary:
Under development.
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Reading and Reference Texts:
Reading copy:
“The Man that was Used Up” — reading copy
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Historical Texts:
Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
Text-01 — “The Man that was Used Up” — 1839 — (There are no
known draft manuscripts or scratch notes reflecting the original effort of composition.)
Text-02a — “The Man that was Used Up” — 1839 — (Speculated
faircopy manuscript Poe prepared for publication. This manuscript has not survived, but this version is
presumably recorded in Text-02b.)
Text-02b — “The Man that was Used
Up” — August 1839 — Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (BGM) —
(Mabbott text A) (In a letter to P. P. Cooke, Poe mentions that he
is sending copies of the July, August, and September 1839 issues of Burton's Gentleman's
Magazine, but in Cooke's reply it is clear that he is
responding only to the stories as printed in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, of which Poe had
sent Cooke an inscribed copy. He does not mention “The Man that was Used Up.” There is no reason
to suspect that any of these magazine copies contained manuscript revisions by Poe.)
Text-03a — “The Man that was Used Up” — about September 1839
— (Speculated copy of Burton's with manuscript changes made by Poe in preparing for the
printing in TGA. This copy has not survived, but is presumably recorded in Text-03b.)
Text-04b — “The Man that was Used
Up” — 1843 — PRRMS — (Mabbott text D) (While this text is based on
TGAPP, a few small verbal changes have apparently been applied in proof. In a letter of February 24, 1845 to R. W. Griswold, Poe says that he was
sending copies of “ ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ and ‘The Man that was used
up’ ” for possible inclusion in a new edition of The Prose Writers of America. The
coincidence of the tales makes if likely that Poe sent him a copy of this printing.)
Text-05a — “The Man that was Used Up” — 1843-1845 —
(speculated copy of PRRMS with manuscript changes made by Poe in preparing for the printing in the
Broadway Journal. This copy has not survived, but is presumably recorded in Text-08.) (Poe appears to
have sent this copy of PRRMS to E. A. Duyckinck for consideration in what would become the 1845
collection of TALES published by Wiley and Putnam. In this presumed copy, Poe must have marked the text
for both items included in this little pamphlet. Of the two tales, Duyckinck selected only “The Murders
in the Rue Morgue.” In preparing the 1845 collection of TALES, the pages containing “The
Murders in the Rue Morgue” were destroyed, which included the initial part of “The Man that was
Used Up,” which began further down the page from the last paragraph of “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue.” Consequently, in printing the story in the Broadway Journal, Poe had to use TGAPP
for the first few paragraphs, including the newly added motto, but without using some of the minor changes
marked in TGAPP.)
Text-05b — “The Man That Was Used
Up” — August 9, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text E) (For
Griswold's 1856 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)
Reprints:
“The Man That Was Used Up” — September 12-13, 1845 — The Spirit of
the Times (Philadelphia, PA) (reprinted from the Broadway Journal)
“The Man That Was Used Up” — Part I (September 12, 1845)
vol. XII, no. 67
“The Man That Was Used Up” — Part II (September 13, 1845) vol.
XII, no. 68
“The Man that was Used Up” —
1856 — WORKS — (Mabbott text F — This is Mabbott's copy-text) (Griswold
reprints Text-04b.)
“The Man That Was Used Up” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan
Poe, second series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 478-488 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856
edition of Poe's Works. It was reprinted several times.)
“The Man That Was Used Up”
— 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram, vol. 2, pp. 549-559 (This collection
was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“The Man that was Used Up”
— 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E.
Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:44-57) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
“The Man that was Used Up”
— 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales II, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York:
T. Y. Crowell (3:259-272, and 3:335-338)
“The Man that was Used Up”
— 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:378-392)
“The Man that was used Up” — 1983 — Edgar Allan Poe: The Other
Side, ed. David Galloway (New York: Penguin Books), pp. 90-99 and p. 248 (annotations are minor)
“The Man That Was Used Up” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and
Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 307-316
“The Man That Was Used Up: A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign”
— 2015 — The Annotated Poe, ed. Kevin J. Hayes (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press), pp. 83-94
“The Man That Was Used Up” — September
9, 1843 — The New Mirror (unauthorized abridgement from Text-05)
“Un homme usé” — 1862 — Contes inedts d‘Edgar Poe,
Paris: J. Hetzel, pp. 119-139 (French translation by William L. Hughes)
“L‘homme tout usé” — 1914 — Edgar Poe: Histories
étranges et Merrveilleuses, Paris: Mercure de France (French translation by M. D. Calvocoressi)
“L‘Homme dont il ne restait rien” — 1934 — Les Sphinx et
autres contes bizarres par Edgar Poë, Paris: Galliard (French translation by Maurice Sachs)
“L‘Homme dont il ne restait rein” — 1950 — Histories
grotesques et sérieuse par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (French
translation by Léon Lemonnier)
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