Deciphering Poe
Subtitle: Subtexts, Contexts, Subversive Meanings
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bethlehem, PA
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781611461398
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: List of illustrations; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1: Poe’s Resonance with Francis Quarles: Emblems, Melancholy, and the Art of Memory; title: William E. Engel; title: Chapter 2: “A Snare in Every Human Path”: “Tamerlane” and the Paternal Scapegoat; title: John Edward Martin; title: Chapter 3: Mother Goddess Manifestations in Poe’s “Catholic Hymn” and “Morella”; title: Amy Branam; title: Chapter 4: Poe’s 1845 Boston Lyceum Appearance Reconsidered; title: Philip Edward Phillips; title: Chapter 5: “Torture[d] into aught of the Sublime:” Poe’s Fall of the House of Burke, Ussher and Kant.; title: Sean Moreland; title: Chapter 6: Poe and Perversity; title: Daniel Fineman; title: Chapter 7: From the Romantic to the Textual Sublime: Poesque Sublimities, Romantic Irony, and Deconstruction; title: Stephanie Sommerfeld; title: Chapter 8: The Armchair Flâneur; title: Tim Towslee; title: Chapter 9: No Kidding; “The Gold-Bug” is True to its Title; title: Henri Justin; title: Chapter 10: “Trust to the shrewdness and common sense of the public”: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym as a Hoaxical Satire of Racist Epistemologies; title: John C. Havard; title: Chapter 11: Moving Daguerreotypes and Myths of Reproduction: Poe’s Body; title: Lauren Curtright; title: Index; title: About the Contributors