Anthologizing Poe

Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

414 Seiten

2020
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-258-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines the processes of editing and anthologizing as innovative contributions to the field of literary culture, analyzing how single-author editions and multi-author anthologies have created distinct reputations for Edgar Allan Poe. The book explores how Poe’s editors, anthologizers, and translators continue to shape his global images.

Edgar Allan Poe wields more influence in the spheres of literature and popular culture on a world scale than any other US author. This influence, however, does not rely on the quality of Poe’s texts alone nor on the compellingly tragic nature of his biography; his reputation and his ubiquitous presence owe much of their longevity to the ways Poe has been interpreted and portrayed by his advocates—other writers, translators, literary critics, literary historians, illustrators, film makers, musicians—and packaged by various mediators in the literary field, especially editors and anthologizers. As this study demonstrates, the division between Poe’s advocates and the mediators who organize his work for consumption by the reading public can be very porous since many of Poe’s most adamant proponents—Charles Baudelaire and Julio Cortázar, for example—also anthologized, edited, and/or translated his works. Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)national Canons focuses on the works produced by Poe’s anthologizers and editors, both the famous and the lesser-known, whose labor often takes place behind the scenes. Poe’s editors and anthologizers exercise real power, and over the last 170 years, they have crafted and framed the various Poes we recognize, revere, cherish, and critique today.

Emron Esplin is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, Margarida Vale de Gato is assistant professor of translation and U.S. literature at the Universidade de Lisboa.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Types of Anthologies and Types of Poe

Margarida Vale de Gato and Emron Esplin

Part 1: Deciding Who Belongs and Where They Fit: (Proto)Anthologies of the 1840s

1. Anthology, Relational Aesthetics, and the (Dis)unity of Affect: Poe Collects People and Griswold Frames Poe

Jana L. Argersinger

2. Poe as Anthologizer of Himself

Harry Lee Poe

3. The “Flower-gemmed” Story: Gift Book Tradition and Poe’s “Eleonora”

Alexandra Urakova

Part 2: Assembling Poe in English: Editors, Editions, and the College Anthology

4. Selecting for Posterity: Poe’s Early Editors and the Battle for a Definitive Collection

Jeffrey A. Savoye

5. The Scholars’ Poe(s): Landmark Editions of the Twentieth Century

Travis Montgomery

6. Poe Anthologies and Editions in Britain: 1852-1914

Bonnie Shannon McMullen

7. Repatriating Poe: Revising the Penguin Portable

J. Gerald Kennedy

8. Textbook Poe: College American Literature Anthologies

Scott Peeples

Part 3: Setting Tones and Moods: Genre Anthologies and Audiobooks

9. Usher II: Poe, Anthologies, and the Rise of Science Fiction

Stephen Rachman

10. Edgar Allan Poe and the Codifying and Anthologizing of Detective Fiction

John Gruesser

11. “‘I have spoken both of ‘sound’ and of ‘voice’’’: An Analysis of Doug Bradley’s Spinechillers Audio Anthology and the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Michelle Kay Hansen

12. Poe’s Poetry Anthologized

Philip Edward Phillips

Part 4: Wor(l)ding Poe Abroad: Anthologizers, Editors, Illustrators, and Translators

13. Startling Restitutions, Significant Partialities: The French Come to the Rescue of Edgar Allan Poe

Margarida Vale de Gato

14. Popular Poe Anthologies in the UK and France

Christopher Rollason

15. Under the Spanish Eye: Illustrated Poe Editions in Spain

Fernando González-Moreno and Margarita Rigal-Aragón

16. A Century of Terror, Ratiocination, and the Supernatural: Poe’s Fiction in Argentina from Carlos Olivera to Julio Cortázar

Emron Esplin

17. Editing and Anthologizing Poe in Japan

Takayuki Tatsumi

Index

About the Editors and Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
Co-Autor	Jana L. Argersinger, Emron Esplin, Fernando González-Moreno
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 232 mm
Gewicht	744 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-61146-258-4 / 1611462584
ISBN-13	978-1-61146-258-6 / 9781611462586
Zustand	Neuware