On Poe
The Best from American Literature
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Back to TopLouis J. Budd in James B. Duke Professor, Emeritus, at Duke University.
Edwin H. Cady is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Duke University. Both scholars have served as Managing Editor and Chair of the Board of Editors of American Literature.
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Series Introduction vii
Poe and Phrenology (1930) / Edward Hungerford 1
Poe as Social Critic (1934) / Ernest Marchand 24
Edgar Allen Poe, Cryptographer (1936) / William F. Fiedman 40
Edgar Allen Poe: A Crisis in the History of American Obscurantism (1937) / Yvor Winters 55
Poe and the Chess Automaton (1939) / W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. 78
The Refrain in Poe's Poetry (1953) / Anthony Caputi 92
Poe and His Nemesis--Lewis Gaylord Clark (1956) / Sidney P. Moss 102
Poe as Literary Theorist: A Reappraisal (1961) / Emerson R. Marks 122
The Comic in Poe's Fiction (1962) / Stephen L. Mooney 133
Poe's "Metzengerstein": Not a Hoax (1971) / Benjamin F. Fisher 142
Poe's Sense of an Ending (1973) / Paul John Eakin 150
The Limits of Reason: Poe's Deluded Detectives (1975) / J. Gerald Kennedy 172
Usher's Hypochondriasis: Mental Alienation and Romantic Idealism in Poe's Gothic Tales (1976) / David W. Butler 185
Poe and the Theme of Forbidden Knowledge (1978) / Jules Zanger 197
"The language of the cipher": Interpretation in "The Gold-Bug" (1982) / Michael Williams 208
The Psychology of "The Murders in the Rue Morge" (1982) / J. A. Leo Lemay 223
Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story (1987) / Cynthia S. Jordan 247
Index 267
Poe and Phrenology (1930) / Edward Hungerford 1
Poe as Social Critic (1934) / Ernest Marchand 24
Edgar Allen Poe, Cryptographer (1936) / William F. Fiedman 40
Edgar Allen Poe: A Crisis in the History of American Obscurantism (1937) / Yvor Winters 55
Poe and the Chess Automaton (1939) / W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. 78
The Refrain in Poe's Poetry (1953) / Anthony Caputi 92
Poe and His Nemesis--Lewis Gaylord Clark (1956) / Sidney P. Moss 102
Poe as Literary Theorist: A Reappraisal (1961) / Emerson R. Marks 122
The Comic in Poe's Fiction (1962) / Stephen L. Mooney 133
Poe's "Metzengerstein": Not a Hoax (1971) / Benjamin F. Fisher 142
Poe's Sense of an Ending (1973) / Paul John Eakin 150
The Limits of Reason: Poe's Deluded Detectives (1975) / J. Gerald Kennedy 172
Usher's Hypochondriasis: Mental Alienation and Romantic Idealism in Poe's Gothic Tales (1976) / David W. Butler 185
Poe and the Theme of Forbidden Knowledge (1978) / Jules Zanger 197
"The language of the cipher": Interpretation in "The Gold-Bug" (1982) / Michael Williams 208
The Psychology of "The Murders in the Rue Morge" (1982) / J. A. Leo Lemay 223
Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story (1987) / Cynthia S. Jordan 247
Index 267
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