Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation最新文献

{"title":"Ingram, Sawyer, and “To Isadore”","authors":"D. Degener","doi":"10.1111/j.1754-6095.2001.tb00131.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-6095.2001.tb00131.x","url":null,"abstract":"in Survivals, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, Belknap Press, 1966), 1:21, 22-23]. of “The Raven” are so few and so choice than any addition to the number of them will, we are sure, be eagerly welcomed. For the satisfaction of readers on the point of genuineness, we may give the history of this piece. When Edgar Poe, in 1845, acquired sole possession of the Broadway Journal, he commenced republishing his poems in it, but without any signature. Most of these Dieces have been inTable 1 Layout of Printer’s “Upper Case”","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"175 1","pages":"63 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79743638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New Annotated Edition of Pym","authors":"Ian R. Walker","doi":"10.1111/j.1754-6095.2001.tb00135.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-6095.2001.tb00135.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"259 ","pages":"74 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72555291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“This Slender Foundation . . . Made Me Immortal”: Sarah Helen Whitman vs. Poe’s Helen","authors":"Noelle Baker","doi":"10.1111/J.1754-6095.2001.TB00126.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1754-6095.2001.TB00126.X","url":null,"abstract":"both consolidated Whitman’s fame as Poe’s fiancke and effaced her significance as an author in her own right-independent of Pee. Understandably, Pee's biographers consider Whitman through Rufus Griswold’s allegations about the end of their engagement in his 1850 ttMernoir,l, through Whitman’s sonnets to Poe, and through her 1860 vindication of his reputation in Edoar Poe and His CritIt is a sad injustice to the memory of one of this country’s most gifted women to allow her to go down to posterity as merely a charming personage to whom Poe was engaged for a brief time. She was a woman of rare poetic gifts and vivid personality, and her title to fame should rest securely on her own work. -Caroline Ticknor, Poe ’s Helen","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"258 5 1","pages":"26 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82033379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Rescued Fugitives: A Story of the War","authors":"Essex","doi":"10.1111/j.1754-6095.2006.tb00188.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-6095.2006.tb00188.x","url":null,"abstract":"eenthcentury paternalism and the inherited tradition of looking at the poor, whatever their skin color, as the object of charity. The racial culture of American abolitionists can be seen as a variation of the European tradition that, since the Renaissance, had produced a body of treatises on the poor that promulgated their heavenly rewards as an unfailing compensation for their earthly indigence. This is the inherited context of Hamet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom S Cabin; o?; Lye among theLowly (1851).","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"26 1","pages":"72 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89135234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rival Modes of Truth-Telling in Antebellum American Letters","authors":"R. Tally","doi":"10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00050.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00050.X","url":null,"abstract":"One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most imaginative works of fiction appeared, not in a literary magazine such as Graham’s or the Broadway Journal, but in a newspaper, the New York Sun. Its title comes to us as “The Balloon-Hoax,” but of course it had no such name when it was published in an “Extra” edition, just hours after a breathless “astounding news” announcement from the morning’s earlier printing on 13 April 1844. That it could be successful both as a newspaper article and as a work of literature demonstrates Poe’s mastery of the two forms, but it also reveals how very different the nineteenthcentury marketplace for the written word was from our own. As Mark Canada observes in Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America, his excellent study of the “sibling rivalry” between the two modes of writing, today the journalist who invents fictional elements for a newspaper story will likely be censured, whereas the literary author who blends fact with fiction may be lauded. As initial examples, Canada contrasts Truman Capote’s celebrated In Cold Blood or Tom Wolfe’s “new journalism” with the work of discredited journalists Steven Glass or Janet Cooke, whose Pulitzer Prize was revoked once she admitted embellishing her story with fiction. Unlike the hoaxer, these writers all engaged in telling a form of the truth, but the principles and practices of the different forms of truth-telling were still being established in the years during which American literature and journalism emerged, clashed, sometimes blended, and frequently diverged. For the sake of convenience, Canada refers to writers whose work appeared principally in newspapers as journalists and those engaged in what would be understood as “literature” as authors. Notwithstanding the early and intermittent overlapping of the two, literature and journalism grew apart as they grew during the nineteenth century [3]. A fundamental difference concerned the approach to truth, or rather, to the materials that counted for “truth.” Newspaper editors sought to convey truth by gathering and reporting everyday facts, whereas literary writers did not believe that (higher) truths could be found in mere fact: “For these authors, reporting truth requires the","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"110 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86787671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Wilson Duplex: Corporatism and the Problem of Singleton Reading in Poe’s “William Wilson” (or, Why Can’t You See Twins?)","authors":"Lynn Langmade","doi":"10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00044.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00044.X","url":null,"abstract":"In June 2003, the Funk Family of Chicago went to China to adopt a baby girl who had been abandoned outside a textile factory in Yangzhou amid the buzz of streaming cars only hours after birth. They named her Mia. In 2004, the Ramirez family of Miami also adopted a baby girl from China found abandoned outside the same factory in Yangzhou one week later. As it happened, the Ramirez family also named their baby Mia. But it wasn’t until August 2006 when Diana Ramirez placed an advertisement on an international orphanage Web site about the upcoming birthday party of her three-year-old daughter that these two families collided. Holly Funk, who just happened to be surfing the orphanage’s Web site on the day Ms. Ramirez’s advertisement went up, put two and two together and wrote back: “Diana, I have a Mia as well and she is almost 3.”1 After emails and photos had been exchanged and DNA tests completed, Ms. Ramirez and Ms. Funk came to the shocking, yet inevitable, conclusion that their daughters—Mia and Mia—who lived fourteen hundred miles apart and over twelve thousand miles from their birth country— were twin sisters.2 The families quickly arranged a meeting between Mia and Mia and discovered that, although they had spent the first three years of their lives apart, the twins shared a remarkable number of personality traits beyond their identical names and appearance. Such similarity coupled with the twins’ reunion is, according to Mia Funk’s adoptive father, nothing short of a miracle: “ ‘What are the odds that of all the people in China these two are sisters? What are the chances of the two of them . . . [finding] each other? It’s amazing.’”3 But more importantly, this case illustrates the way twins, who appear poised to live their entire lives apart, are often reunited by deceptively simple means, such as a Web site advertisement—pulled back together by a far more powerful force than the culture, time, and space separating them. Though the happy ending to the Mia Twins’ story would have been unthinkable without the technological advancement of the Internet, it is actually just a modern installment of a very old tale: twins separated at birth miraculously reunite by chance or fate and discover eerie similarities. But it’s","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"154 1","pages":"39 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78002897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Critical Purchase of Fraudulence","authors":"E. Richards","doi":"10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00049.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00049.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"5 1","pages":"111 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74212590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“A series of mere household events”: Poe’s “The Black Cat,” Domesticity, and Pet-Keeping in Nineteenth-Century America","authors":"Heidi M. Hanrahan","doi":"10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00045.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00045.X","url":null,"abstract":"In 1846, Mary Gove Nichols visited Edgar Allan Poe and his family in their Fordham cottage. Nichols remembered seeing Poe’s beloved wife Virginia sick in bed (she would die the next year after a long battle with tuberculosis) and later wrote: “She lay on the straw bed, wrapped in her husband’s great-coat, with a large tortoise-shell cat on her bosom. The wonderful cat seemed conscious of her great usefulness. The coat and the cat were the sufferer’s only means of warmth, except as her husband held her hands, and her mother her feet.”1 In the Poe family’s domestic space, a cat played an essential role, that of loving comforter to a dying woman. This rather sentimental image contrasts sharply with some of the most famous lines Poe ever wrote about a cat: “One morning, in cold blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree;—hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart;—hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offense;— hung it because I knew that in doing so I was committing a sin” (Works, 3:852). This dark scene from “The Black Cat” reminds us that depictions of domesticity and horror often share settings, character types, and signifiers, a truth reinforced by the narrator’s opening description of his story as a “most homely narrative” (Works, 3:849). Thus, this story of murder and madness is also a story about pets, family, and domesticity. In this essay, I argue that “The Black Cat,” a tale first and foremost about a man and his beloved pet, can be read as Poe’s commentary on nineteenthcentury American domesticity. In this way, it is perhaps one of Poe’s most American tales and clearly connected to the same concerns as his contemporaries. Poe here merges the gothic and the domestic and thus implicitly raises questions about domesticity’s potential for containing our darker desires and impulses. The narrator’s violent acts, directed first toward his cat and then toward his wife, indicate a resistance to the promises of domesticity: the calming and wholesome effects of a healthy, happy home. Reading Poe’s story as a response to what historian Katherine Grier calls the “new domestic ethic","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"1 1","pages":"40 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82635571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells","authors":"Jeffrey A. Savoye","doi":"10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00048.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00048.X","url":null,"abstract":"In his definitive edition of Poe’s poetry, Thomas Ollive Mabbott states that Annie Richmond did not have a manuscript of “The Bells.” Listing and describing the various known texts for the poem, Mabbott suggests that “a reference by Phillips, II, 1295, to a manuscript of ‘The Bells’ in Annie’s family . . . probably represents confusion of memory” [CW, 1:431 n. 7]. Mabbott subsequently identifies a manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library, previously printed in facsimile by J. H. Ingram, as being the manuscript sold to John Sartain for publication in Sartain’s Union Magazine, where it appeared in the issue for November 1849. (Mabbott labels this manuscript version E of the copy-text.) There are, however, problems with Mabbott’s presumed chain of provenance. To begin with, a fuller examination of the surviving documentation strongly indicates that Mrs. Richmond did indeed own a manuscript of “The Bells.” Ingram wrote to Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman on 14 February 1877, “I have heard several times lately from Mrs. Richmond . . . & the MS. of ‘The Bells,’ which he [W. F. Gill] announced himself owner of, was only borrowed from Mrs. R.” [see Poe’s Helen Remembers, ed. John Carl Miller (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1979), 474]. In his first edition of The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, William Fearing Gill presented a facsimile of one manuscript page and asserted, “The original MSS. of ‘The Bells,’ in its enlarged form, from which the draft sent to ‘Sartain’s’ was made, is in our possession at this time” [(New York: D. Appleton, 1877), 207]. Note that Gill describes the manuscript as the one “from which the draft sent to ‘Sartain’s’ was made” rather than the draft itself. Whether Gill intended to imply ownership or merely temporary possession of the manuscript among the materials then being used to prepare his book is a matter of interpretation. Mrs. Richmond explained how Gill came to borrow the manuscript in a letter to Ingram of 31 January 1877: “You have several times mentioned Mr. Gill . . . . At the time he went to Baltimore to attend the Memorial services, he borrowed my manuscript of ‘The Bells,’ which he said he wished to have that he might read the poem with more effect! Since then I have heard (though not from him) that he was preparing a Memoir that would come out this spring—he very likely has a photographic copy of my manuscript, taken while it was in his possession, but I certainly have the","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"13 1","pages":"108 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84782391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Gift (Book) That Keeps on Giving: Poe’s “The Purloined Letter,” Rereading, Reprinting, and Detective Fiction","authors":"Gila Ashtor","doi":"10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00046.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1754-6095.2012.00046.X","url":null,"abstract":"Just published by Carey & Hart, and for sale by all booksellers. The Gift for 1845, with illustrations . . . and originally bound in calf extra . . . . We had reason, last year, to bestow high commendation on one of this class of American publications, and are glad to be [. . .] repeating it on the present volume. The Gift is still . . . so well printed, charmingly illustrated, as handsomely bound and as ably written as ever. This last is, after all, the feature which most attracts our regard . . . But [. . .] the story of “The Purloined Letter,” by Edgar A. Poe, we must regard [. . .] of literary merit.1","PeriodicalId":40386,"journal":{"name":"Poe Studies-History Theory Interpretation","volume":"399 1","pages":"57 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80037243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}