Anthologizing Poe

Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

Edited by Emron Esplin and Margarida Vale de Gato - Contributions by Jana L. Argersinger; Emron Esplin; Fernando González-Moreno; John Gruesser; Michelle Kay Hansen; J. Gerald Kennedy; Bonnie Shannon McMullen; Travis Montgomery; Scott Peeples; Philip Edward Phillips; Harry Lee Poe; Stephen Rachman; Margarita Rigal-Aragón; Christopher Rollason; Jeffrey A. Savoye; Takayuki Tatsumi; Alexandra Urakova and Margarida Vale de Gato

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.

University Press Copublishing Division / Lehigh University Press

Pages: 414 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-61146-258-6 • Hardback • August 2020 • $146.00 • (£112.00)

978-1-61146-260-9 • Paperback • December 2021 • $52.99 • (£41.00)

978-1-61146-259-3 • eBook • August 2020 • $50.00 • (£38.00)

Series: Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century, Literary Collections / American / General, Literary Criticism / American / General, Literary Criticism / Gothic & Romance

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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.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Lehigh University Press

Pages: 414 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-61146-258-6 • Hardback • August 2020 • $146.00 • (£112.00)

978-1-61146-260-9 • Paperback • December 2021 • $52.99 • (£41.00)

978-1-61146-259-3 • eBook • August 2020 • $50.00 • (£38.00)

Series: Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century, Literary Collections / American / General, Literary Criticism / American / General, Literary Criticism / Gothic & Romance

Author

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 University of Lisboa.

Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Anthologizing Poe is a major achievement and a landmark resource on book history in America.

— Poe Studies

Anthologizing Poe constitutes a landmark in the appreciation of how thousands of readers across generations have approached Poe: anthologies. The subject of this book has not always been the target of academic debate, so Esplin and Vale de Gato have come to offset that by gathering some of the most influential voices on Poe today.

— Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

Exactly how anthologies, in all their different forms, can shape our perception of an author is a fascinating topic. Edgar Allan Poe—one of the world’s most important and popular writers—is the ideal focus for such a study. This groundbreaking book promises to transform our understanding of how Poe is read, today as well as in the past, not only in the United States but throughout the world.
— Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Monsignor Murray Professor in Arts and Humanities and past president of the Poe Studies Association

This excellent and innovative study updates the appeal of Poe’s work by researching translations and anthologies that bring his creativity to readers in many languages and cultures.
— Lois Vines, professor of French, distinguished professor of humanities, Ohio University

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Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

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