Poe Spaces
Within and Beyond the Spatial Turn
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Beschreibung
This edited volume examines the life, works, and influence of Edgar Allan Poe from a variety of critical, biographical, and literary-historical perspectives through diverse lenses of spatiality. Eighteen contributions offer spatially-oriented investigations of the critical, intellectual, cultural, philosophical, and political spaces wherein Poe defined himself as a critic and artist. The collection comes together in four parts focusing on the Temporal and Atemporal Spaces, Social and Political Spaces, Imaginative and Psychological Spaces, and Transnational and Translated Spaces. Authors from the US, Japan, Spain, France, and Portugal represent Poe’s pervasive and ongoing international influence.
Philip Edward Phillips is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He previously edited Poe and Place (Palgrave 2018), which received the Poe Studies Association’s J. Lasley Dameron Award, among several other volumes. He also currently serves as President of the Poe Studies Association.
Winner of the Poe Studies Association’s 2025 J. Lasley Dameron Award for an Outstanding Essay Collection on Poe
This edited volume examines the life, works, and influence of Edgar Allan Poe from a variety of critical, biographical, and literary-historical perspectives through diverse lenses of spatiality. Eighteen contributions offer spatially-oriented investigations of the critical, intellectual, cultural, philosophical, and political spaces wherein Poe defined himself as a critic and artist. The collection comes together in four parts focusing on the Temporal and Atemporal Spaces, Social and Political Spaces, Imaginative and Psychological Spaces, and Transnational and Translated Spaces. Authors from the US, Japan, Spain, France, and Portugal represent Poe’s pervasive and ongoing international influence.
The first collection devoted to the interdisciplinary application of spatial criticism within Poe studies Considers the amorphous critical arenas and cultural/literary circles in which Poe operated and honed his craft Focuses on the spaces and cliques in which Poe engaged with other American writers and political and cultural issues
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Philip Edward Phillips
Themen in »Poe Spaces«
Literature and Space Nineteenth Century Literature Edgar Allan Poe American Literature Spatial Literary Criticism