{"product_id":"the-selected-writings-of-edgar-allan-poe-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393972856","title":"The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Backgrounds and Contexts\" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe's poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Selected Bibliography is also included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoe, Edgar Allan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan Poe\u003c\/b\u003e (1809-1849) wrote tales of the macabre, and invented or contributed to inventing the detective and science fiction genres.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThompson, G. R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eG.R. Thompson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Purdue University. He has published several studies of Edgar Allan Poe, including \u003cem\u003ePoe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales, Essays and Reviews of Edgar Allan Poe, Romantic Arabesque, Contemporary Theory, and Postmodernism\u003c\/em\u003e and the Library of America edition of \u003cem\u003ePoe's Essays and Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50411081007378,"sku":"9780393972856","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0dfd5d35-3172-46a1-87da-657ed0543979.jpg?v=1729310108","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-selected-writings-of-edgar-allan-poe-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393972856","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}