Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Poe’s Resonance with Francis Quarles: Emblems,
Melancholy, and the Art of Memory
William E. Engel
Chapter 2: “A Snare in Every Human Path”: “Tamerlane” and the
Paternal Scapegoat
John Edward Martin
Chapter 3: Mother Goddess Manifestations in Poe’s “Catholic Hymn”
and “Morella”
Amy Branam
Chapter 4: Poe’s 1845 Boston Lyceum Appearance Reconsidered
Philip Edward Phillips
Chapter 5: “Torture[d] into aught of the Sublime:” Poe’s Fall of
the House of Burke, Ussher and Kant.
Sean Moreland
Chapter 6: Poe and Perversity
Daniel Fineman
Chapter 7: From the Romantic to the Textual Sublime: Poesque
Sublimities, Romantic Irony, and Deconstruction
Stephanie Sommerfeld
Chapter 8: The Armchair Flâneur
Tim Towslee
Chapter 9: No Kidding; “The Gold-Bug” is True to its Title
Henri Justin
Chapter 10: “Trust to the shrewdness and common sense of the
public”: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym as a Hoaxical Satire of
Racist Epistemologies
John C. Havard
Chapter 11: Moving Daguerreotypes and Myths of Reproduction: Poe’s
Body
Lauren Curtright
Index
About the Contributors
Alexandra Urakova works as a senior researcher at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and she is associate professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia, Moscow. She is the author of The Poetics of the Body in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (2009, in Russian).
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