Anthologizing Poe

Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato

• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781611462593
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe's texts or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather, his continued prominence as a writer owes much to the ways that Poe has been interpreted, portrayed, and packaged by an extensive group of mediators ranging from anthologizers, editors, translators, and fellow writers to literary critics, filmmakers, musicians, and illustrators. In this volume, the work of presenting Poe's texts for public consumption becomes a fascinating object of study in its own right, one that highlights the powerful and often overlooked influence of those who have edited, anthologized, translated, and adapted the author's writing over the past 170 years.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Types of Anthologies and Types of Poe Margarida Vale de Gato and Emron Esplin
• Part I: Deciding Who Belongs and Where They Fit: (Proto) Anthologies of the 1840s
• Part II: Assembling Poe in English: Editors, Editions, and the College Anthology
• Part III: Setting Tones and Moods: Genre Anthologies and Audiobooks
• Part IV: Wor(l)ding Poe Abroad: Anthologizers, Editors, Illustrators, and Translators
• About the Editors and Contributors