Thirty-Two Stories (Poe) (Hackett Publishing Co.)

Poe, Edgar Allan

ISBN 10: 0872204987 / ISBN 13: 9780872204980

Verlag: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2000

Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00094223733

Inhaltsangabe:

America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is because many of Poe’s tales depend on knowledge a reader in 1835 or 1845 might have had that a typical reader in 2000 would not. In this extensively annotated and meticulously edited selection of Poe’s short fiction, Stuart Levine and Susan F. Levine connect Poe to major literary forces of his era and to the rapidly changing U.S. of the 1830s and 1840s, discussing Shelley, Carlyle, Byron, Emerson, and Hawthorne, as well as the railroad, photography, and the telegraph. In the process, they reveal a Poe immersed in the America of his day--its politics, science, technology, best-selling books, biases, arts, journalism, fads, scandals, and even sexual mores--and render accessible all thirty-two stories included here. The general Introduction, the headnote to each story, and the annotations included in this volume have been extensively revised from the editors’ critically acclaimed editions of the complete short fiction: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition (1976, 1990).

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Stuart Levine is Professor Emeritus of English, University of Kansas.

Dr. Susan F. Levine is former Assistant Dean in the Graduate School, University of Kansas.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Thirty-Two Stories (Poe) (Hackett Publishing...
Verlag: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good