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Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales

This 50th anniversary reissue of G.R. Thompson's Poe's Fiction makes available for Poe scholars, students, and aficionados the groundbreaking work that changed the course of Poe studies. Written in highly accessible prose, the book reads as fresh today as when it first appeared. Poe's Fiction, which established that Poe was neither a hack nor a madman, neither a writer purely devoted to ideality nor solely a morbid Gothicist-but rather consistently a romantic ironist-was not only the first book to make full sense of Poe, it also helped to explain Poe's enormous influence on twentieth-century literature.

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Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales

This 50th anniversary reissue of G.R. Thompson's Poe's Fiction makes available for Poe scholars, students, and aficionados the groundbreaking work that changed the course of Poe studies. Written in highly accessible prose, the book reads as fresh today as when it first appeared. Poe's Fiction, which established that Poe was neither a hack nor a madman, neither a writer purely devoted to ideality nor solely a morbid Gothicist-but rather consistently a romantic ironist-was not only the first book to make full sense of Poe, it also helped to explain Poe's enormous influence on twentieth-century literature.

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Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales

Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales

Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales

Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales

Overview

This 50th anniversary reissue of G.R. Thompson's Poe's Fiction makes available for Poe scholars, students, and aficionados the groundbreaking work that changed the course of Poe studies. Written in highly accessible prose, the book reads as fresh today as when it first appeared. Poe's Fiction, which established that Poe was neither a hack nor a madman, neither a writer purely devoted to ideality nor solely a morbid Gothicist-but rather consistently a romantic ironist-was not only the first book to make full sense of Poe, it also helped to explain Poe's enormous influence on twentieth-century literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780984654345
Publisher: English Hill Press
Publication date: 10/31/2023
Pages: 338
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

G. R. Thompson (1937 - 2019), former Professor of English, Purdue University at West Lafayette, was the author of numerous books, including The Art of Authorial Presence: Hawthorne's Provincial Tales; Reading the American Novel, 1865-1914; editor of The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Norton Critical Edition); and founder of the journal Poe Studies.

Robert Paul Lamb, Professor of English, Purdue University at West Lafayette, is the author of Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story.

Philip Haldeman, owner and publisher, English Hill Press, is the author of numerous articles, short stories, reviews, and a novel, Shadow Coast.
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