Description
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe wields more influence in the spheres of literature and popular culture on a world scale than any other US author. This influence, however, does not rely on the quality of Poe’s texts alone nor on the compellingly tragic nature of his biography; his reputation and his ubiquitous presence owe much of their longevity to the ways Poe has been interpreted and portrayed by his advocates—other writers, translators, literary critics, literary historians, illustrators, film makers, musicians—and packaged by various mediators in the literary field, especially editors and anthologizers. As this study demonstrates, the division between Poe’s advocates and the mediators who organize his work for consumption by the reading public can be very porous since many of Poe’s most adamant proponents—Charles Baudelaire and Julio Cortázar, for example—also anthologized, edited, and/or translated his works. Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)national Canons focuses on the works produced by Poe’s anthologizers and editors, both the famous and the lesser-known, whose labor often takes place behind the scenes. Poe’s editors and anthologizers exercise real power, and over the last 170 years, they have crafted and framed the various Poes we recognize, revere, cherish, and critique today.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Types of Anthologies and Types of Poe
Margarida Vale de Gato and Emron Esplin
Part 1: Deciding Who Belongs and Where They Fit: (Proto)Anthologies of the 1840s
1. Anthology, Relational Aesthetics, and the (Dis)unity of Affect: Poe Collects People and Griswold Frames Poe
Jana L. Argersinger
2. Poe as Anthologizer of Himself
Harry Lee Poe
3. The “Flower-gemmed” Story: Gift Book Tradition and Poe’s “Eleonora”
Alexandra Urakova
Part 2: Assembling Poe in English: Editors, Editions, and the College Anthology
4. Selecting for Posterity: Poe’s Early Editors and the Battle for a Definitive Collection
Jeffrey A. Savoye
5. The Scholars’ Poe(s): Landmark Editions of the Twentieth Century
Travis Montgomery
6. Poe Anthologies and Editions in Britain: 1852-1914
Bonnie Shannon McMullen
7. Repatriating Poe: Revising the Penguin Portable
J. Gerald Kennedy
8. Textbook Poe: College American Literature Anthologies
Scott Peeples
Part 3: Setting Tones and Moods: Genre Anthologies and Audiobooks
9. Usher II: Poe, Anthologies, and the Rise of Science Fiction
Stephen Rachman
10. Edgar Allan Poe and the Codifying and Anthologizing of Detective Fiction
John Gruesser
11. “‘I have spoken both of ‘sound’ and of ‘voice’’’: An Analysis of Doug Bradley’s Spinechillers Audio Anthology and the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Michelle Kay Hansen
12. Poe’s Poetry Anthologized
Philip Edward Phillips
Part 4: Wor(l)ding Poe Abroad: Anthologizers, Editors, Illustrators, and Translators
13. Startling Restitutions, Significant Partialities: The French Come to the Rescue of Edgar Allan Poe
Margarida Vale de Gato
14. Popular Poe Anthologies in the UK and France
Christopher Rollason
15. Under the Spanish Eye: Illustrated Poe Editions in Spain
Fernando González-Moreno and Margarita Rigal-Aragón
16. A Century of Terror, Ratiocination, and the Supernatural: Poe’s Fiction in Argentina from Carlos Olivera to Julio Cortázar
Emron Esplin
17. Editing and Anthologizing Poe in Japan
Takayuki Tatsumi
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
