A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe

by J. Gerald Kennedy

Book Overview

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the "republic of letters" in the United...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195121503
• ISBN13: 9780195121506
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"