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Book SynopsisThis collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather, his continued prominence as a writer owes much to the ways that Poe has been interpreted, portrayed, and packaged by an extensive group of mediators ranging from anthologizers, editors, translators, and fellow writers to literary critics, filmmakers, musicians, and illustrators. In this volume, the work of presenting Poe’s texts for public consumption becomes a fascinating object of study in its own right, one that highlights the powerful and often overlooked influence of those who have edited, anthologized, translated, and adapted the author’s writing over the past 170 years.
Trade ReviewExactly how anthologies, in all their different forms, can shape our perception of an author is a fascinating topic. Edgar Allan Poe—one of the world’s most important and popular writers—is the ideal focus for such a study. This groundbreaking book promises to transform our understanding of how Poe is read, today as well as in the past, not only in the United States but throughout the world. -- Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Monsignor Murray Professor in Arts and Humanities and past president of the Poe Studies Association
This excellent and innovative study updates the appeal of Poe’s work by researching translations and anthologies that bring his creativity to readers in many languages and cultures. -- Lois Vines, professor of French, distinguished professor of humanities, Ohio University
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
