Retrospective Poe

Jose R. Ibanez is Assistant Professor at the University of Almeria, Spain. He has published articles and book chapters on Comparative literature and American literature, with an emphasis on Edgar Allan Poe and the short fiction of Southern United States authors and hyphenated American authors, such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Ha Jin. Santiago Rodriguez Guerrero-Strachan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He has published extensively on the relations between Spanish and American literatures and on the short story. His research interests include American literature of the Romantic and Modernist periods.

1 Introduction: Re-assessing Poe's 'Adolescent' Art - JOSÉ R. IBÁÑEZ IBÁÑEZ & SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ GUERRERO-STRACHAN.- Poe Classical and (Post)modern readings.- 2 Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Nostalgia and Poe's Readership - JEFFREY SAVOYE.- 3 Fear, Unbelief, and the Ascendancy of Edgar Poe - J. GERALD KENNEDY.- 4 "The Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome": Edgar Allan Poe and the Classical World - HARRY LEE POE.- 5 Poe's Arrival in Europe: The Case of Greece - DIMITRIOS TSOKANOS.- 6 The Achievement of Edgar Allan Poe: Poe among the Modernists - VIORICA PATEA.- 7 Poeta Ludens: Poe's Twisted Modern Times - STEPHANIE SOMMERFELD.- Poe's Young Adult Readership.- 8 Reading, Understanding, and Praising Poe's Illustrated Oeuvre: From Childhood to Old Age - FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ MORENO & MARGARITA RIGAL-ARAGÓN.- 9 Poe's 'The Gold-Bug.' Reading, and Race - JOHN GRUESSER.- 10 Poe's "Berenice" in Popular Culture: Contemporary (Audio)visual representations in Spain - Mª ISABEL JIMÉNEZ-GONZÁLEZ & ANA GONZÁLEZ-RIVAS FERNÁNDEZ.- 11 "The Masque of the Red Death" in literature and cinema: Poe's original story and Corman's film adaptation - EUSEBIO V. LLÀCER LLORCA.- Poe's Adult Readership and his Legacy.- 12 Beyond Baudelaire's Views of Poe: Carlos Fernández Cuenca and Josep Farrán i Mayoral. Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Reception in 1930s and 1940s Spain - JOSÉ MANUEL CORREOSO-RÓDENAS & ALEJANDRO JAQUERO-ESPARCIA.- 13 "Darkness there and nothing more:" Edgar A. Poe and the Popular Culture of Necrolatry and Tanatography - EULALIA PIÑERO GIL.- 14 Echoes of Poe in the Jazz Age: The Haunting of F. Scott Fitzgerald - BONNIE MCMULLEN.- 15 Growing up in Poe's Shadow: Intertextuality, Jungian Projections, and Creativity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Stephen King's "The Monkey" - MARTA MIQUEL-BALDELLOU.- 16 Poe's Poetics and Eliot's Poetry. A Denial of Influence? - SLAWOMIR STUDNIARZ.- 17 "The Man of the Crowd" and His Followers: Poe,Rampo and Sakate - TAKAYUKI TATSUMI.

"Retrospective Poe offers readers an engaging area of exploration in Poe studies. ... Retrospective Poe is successful in showing a plurality of ways of engaging with Poe's works and paves the way for future explorations in the field ... . this publication is a welcome addition to Poe scholarship for its engaging and rich content ... . The book will prove to be stimulating and useful both to experts and members of the general public fascinated by the American author." (Ester Díaz Morillo, nexus, aedean.org, Issue 2, 2023)