The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: A Norton Critical Edition

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In this Norton Critical Edition G. R. Thompson has fully introduced annotated and edited each text.Backgrounds and Contexts includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poes prolific but short career among them reviews prefaces and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism sciences of the mind sensation fiction and the South and slavery.Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poes poetry fiction politics and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall Robert C. McLean Richard Wilbur James W. Gargano Joseph J. Moldenhauer Paul John Eakin Grace Farrell Liahna Klenman Babener Barton Levi St. Armand Joseph N. Riddel J. Gerald Kennedy John Carlos Rowe Terence Whalen and John T. Irwin.A Selected Bibliography is also included.