Poe and Women (eBook, ePUB)

Recognition and Revision
Redaktion: Armiento, Amy Branam; Montgomery, Travis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Edgar Allan Poe notoriously identified "the death . . . of a beautiful woman" as "the most poetical topic in the world." Despite this cringeworthy claim, it is widely known that Poe drew creative inspiration from female authors and that women figure prominently among the artists and critics fascinated by the writer's creative legacy. Filling a major gap in scholarship on Poe, this volume investigates the varied ways that women have influenced perceptions of Poe through biography, criticism, editorial work, and creative adaptation. Covering a timeframe from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Poe and Women addresses a range of topics, including accounts of Poe written by female contemporaries, the scholarly efforts of women in establishing Poe's worldwide reputation, and the revision of antebellum gender constructs in popular adaptations of Poe's work. This collection will appeal not only to Poe specialists but also to anyone interested in the writer's ongoing relevance to gender discussions inside and outside the academy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611463361
• Artikelnr.: 67651718

Autorenporträt

Amy Branam Armiento is professor of English at Frostburg State University. Travis Montgomery is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Christian University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery
Part I: Recognition
1. "The Vast Pantheon of Speculation": Edgar Allan Poe and His Women
Biographers Sandra Tomc
2. Spiritual Dialogues: Lydia Maria Child, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Politics
of Unity
Adam Bradford
3. Fifty Years of Women's Scholarship on Poe
Amy Branam Armiento
4. Transnational Poe: Women Scholars Abroad
Clara Petino
Part II: Revision
5. "Can You See Me?": Poe's Female Characters and the Struggle for
Self-Definition on Film
Alexandra Reuber
6. "And She Grew Strangely": Poe, Women, and Comics
John Edward Martin
7. "Sort of E. A. Poeish": Edgar Allan Poe and Female Pulp Writers
Kevin Knott
8. Traces of Poe's House of Usher in the Work of Contemporary Women Horror
Writers
Melanie R. Anderson
Afterword: Maureen Cobb Mabbott and The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Travis Montgomery