{"title":"Poe in Richmond: A Gift from Poe to Elmira Shelton","authors":"Christopher P. Semtner","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"206 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41850195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poe in Cyberspace: When Pokerishness Went Viral","authors":"Heyward Ehrlich","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"213 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47937009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Illustrating Poe's Detection","authors":"John Gruesser","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0079","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:It is not surprising that the texts of Edgar Allan Poe, that most visual of literary artists, have inspired so many images and that such a wide array of illustrators has taken on the challenges of rendering his highly imaginative scenes on paper. With a map to decipher, a treasure chest to locate, bags of gold to haul away, and a Black servant to serve as (often racist) comic relief, \"The Gold-Bug\" (1843) has provided artists with a plethora of subjects, making it Poe's most frequently illustrated text. Although \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" (1841), regarded as the first modern detective story, does not offer such a range of options, illustrators have nevertheless emphasized its various aspects. Many of them have chosen not to portray the protagonist C. Auguste Dupin at all, while others have come up with creative ways to represent his mental powers and/or to associate him with vigorous action. No doubt Poe, with his detailed knowledge of and strong opinions about illustrations, would have approved of such inventiveness.","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"109 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47332393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thrilling Vagueness and Pure Abstractions: Swedenborgian Correspondence and Edgar Allan Poe's Graphicality","authors":"Devin Zuber","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0142","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:If we are to position Poe's concept of \"graphicality\" as hovering at the juncture between the verbal and the visual—a gesture toward painting at the same time that it indicates a literary art of description, or ekphrasis—criticism has tended to overlook the centrality of Emanuel Swedenborg's so-called \"doctrine of correspondences\" within American art discourses of the 1830s and '40s. This essay explores the corresponding Swedenborgian valences behind Poe's own graphicality, putting his work in context of three critical figures in Poe's orbit who respectively mediated, to one degree or another, Swedenborgian theories: George Bush, the mesmerist and New York University professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages; Thomas Holley Chivers, the southern poet, and close friend of Poe's; and finally, Christopher Pearse Cranch, the landscape painter. The essay concludes with a brief close reading of Poe's iconic tale \"The Fall of the House of Usher,\" the only published work in Poe which explicitly mentions a book by Swedenborg (his \"spiritualist\" classic from 1758, Heaven and Hell).","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"142 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47755586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Images of the Grotesque in \"Berenice\": Visual Representations of Poe's Tale from Nineteenth-Century Illustrations to Comic Books","authors":"Ana González-Rivas Fernández","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0059","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:There is no doubt that \"Berenice\" is one of Poe's most disturbing stories; much of this disturbance lies upon its \"too horrible\" subject—Poe's words—in tune with the aesthetics of the grotesque that were present in certain publications of the nineteenth century. This grotesque component substantially increased the \"graphicality\" that characterizes Poe's style by attracting the attention of many visual artists, ranging from some renowned illustrators who were Poe's contemporaries, to some popular present-day comic-book artists, including Richard Corben, who provided two original interpretations of the tale. By drawing on a selection of visual renderings of Poe's tale, this study looks at how the grotesque survives throughout all these adaptations, revealing the tale's complexity, and even, in some cases, opening up new possible readings of the text. As will be shown, all these new works result in an interesting array of approaches to the woman protagonist; however, two perspectives have prevailed in the visual interpretation of \"Berenice\" since the nineteenth century: more idealistic or more grotesque. The final results will always depend on the artists' personal perceptions, but they sometimes have also been determined by certain external circumstances—such as the Comics Code Authority, in the case of comic books.","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"59 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41496013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legacy of Poe's Graphicality in the Expanded Field","authors":"Nathan J. Timpano","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41852365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"A man must laugh, or die\": Visual Interpretations of Poe's Comical and Parodical Tales","authors":"Margarita Rigal-Aragón, Fernando González-Moreno","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A brief overview of Poe's most iconic illustrated editions shows that the humorous and satirical features of his texts have called the attention of fewer editors and artists than the aspects of the beautiful, the sublime, the arabesque, the grotesque, the macabre, and so forth. Here we review many of the freshest and liveliest interpretations in which parody is put forward, using as a reference some exceptional visual renderings that also display the likes of times and places. The early interpretations provided by artists such as Church (1884), Sterner (1894–95), or Coburn (1902); later on by Servolini (1929), Rackham (1935), Bofa (1941), Eichenberg (1944), or Dubout (1948); in the second part of the twentieth century by Calsina (1971); and very recently by Grimly (2004, 2009) prove that the parodical side of Poe's oeuvre mattered and still matters.","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"30 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70828092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science","authors":"Travis Montgomery","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47021229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index of Articles, Marginalia, and Reviews in the Edgar Allan Poe Review (Fall 2016–Fall 2020)","authors":"","doi":"10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40986,"journal":{"name":"Edgar Allan Poe Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45193901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}