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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Peeples, Scott
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- Condition
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780691182407
- Book Title
- Man of the Crowd : Edgar Allan Poe and the City
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Mystery & Detective, Poetry, American / General
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writings Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring mark on the writer and his craft. Poe wrote short stories, poems, journalism, and editorials with urban readers in mind. He witnessed urban slavery up close, living and working within a few blocks of slave jails and auction houses in Richmond and among enslaved workers in Baltimore. In Philadelphia, he saw an expanding city struggling to contain its own violent propensities. At a time when suburbs were just beginning to offer an alternative to crowded city dwellings, he tried living cheaply on the then-rural Upper West Side of Manhattan, and later in what is now the Bronx. Poe's urban mysteries and claustrophobic tales of troubled minds and abused bodies reflect his experiences living among the soldiers, slaves, and immigrants of the American city. Featuring evocative photographs by Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings. The Poe who emerges here is a man whose outlook and career were shaped by the cities where he lived, longing for a stable home.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
069118240x
ISBN-13
9780691182407
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038701130
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man of the Crowd : Edgar Allan Poe and the City
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Mystery & Detective, Poetry, American / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A highly absorbing, important, and superbly crafted study that deserves a place on the top shelf of Poe biographies." ---Jason Richards, American Literary History, "[A] superb new biograph[y] of Poe. . . . The Man of the Crowd . . . give[s] us a clearer view of Poe as a man and an artist, while at the same time showing how the myth mill about him was busy from the start, forming and deforming his choices, and creating the brand of Poe we know today." ---Jonathan Elmer, Public Books, " Well-researched . . . [and] deeply informed. . . . Scott Peeples's streamlined account of Poe's journeys . . . grounds itself determinedly in the arc of his life's movement through various urban social realities. . . . This biography achieves its freshness through framing Poe's life as a series of chapters related to the cities in which he took up primary residence. " ---Stephen Rachman, Poe Studies, "Engaging...[ The Man of the Crowd ] succeeds admirably in bringing us closer to a man we can now better appreciate as part of the crowd rather than a remote and inexplicable monad." ---Ian Finseth, Edgar Allan Poe Review, "Engaging. . . . [ The Man of the Crowd ] succeeds admirably in bringing us closer to a man we can now better appreciate as part of the crowd rather than a remote and inexplicable monad." ---Ian Finseth, Edgar Allan Poe Review, "What sets Scott Peeples's 'compact biography' apart from other recent work is that it also concerns cities, specifically Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, where Poe spent much of his life and which stirred his imagination. Peeples's aim is to re-contextualize the image of Poe as a campy 'nowhere man,'. . . . In detailing Poe's moves from city to city, Peeples presents an ambitious young man seeking to support his family and to establish himself as a writer, critic, and editor." ---Katherine J. Kim, The Metropole, " A welcome, engaging introduction to Poe's life. . . . This compact biography is an affable ramble, a genial journey, with Poe through the years. It knowledgeably and accessibly recounts Poe's urban contexts and relates his relevant texts. . . . The whole is interestingly complemented by archival images of contemporary maps and periodicals and by archival photographs, blended photographs, and recent photographs by Michelle Van Parys of various Poe sites and locales. This volume is a useful vade mecum for our armchair Poe peregrinations. " ---Richard Kopley, Poe Studies, " Peeples convincingly demonstrates that Poe remained "in transit" throughout his life, despite his literary successes, and was never in full control of his career. This accessible book will interest casual readers and Poe scholars alike. ", " The Man of the Crowd , by Scott Peeples, has something for everyone. It should be equally attractive to Edgar Allan Poe scholars, aficionados, and those who simply want to read more of Poe's stories, poems, and essays." ---Henry T. Edmonson III, Law & Liberty
Lccn
2020-020492
Photographed by
Van Parys, Michelle
Dewey Decimal
818.309
Lc Classification Number
Ps2634.P44 2020
Copyright Date
2020
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