The Man of the Crowd (eBook)

Edgar Allan Poe and the City

Scott Peeples (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21208-1 (ISBN)

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How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2020
• Illustrationen: Michelle Van Parys
• Zusatzinfo: 28 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: A Book Of • A Descent into the Maelstrom • African Americans • Al Aaraaf • alley • Annabel Lee • anonymity • A Predicament • assassination • author • BARNABY RUDGE • Broadway Journal • burial • Calculation • Career • Caricature • C. Auguste Dupin • Charles Dickens • Churchyard • correspondent • Dwelling • Eastern State Penitentiary • Edgar Allan Poe • Edgar Allan Poe Cottage • Edgar Allan Poe House • Edgar Allan Poe Museum • Edgar Award • editorial • eleonora • Eleonora (short story) • Evening (magazine) • George Lippard • Godey's Lady's Book • Graham's Magazine • Harlem Line • Henry David Thoreau • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • His Family • Hop-Frog • Household • Illustration • James Fenimore Cooper • James Russell Lowell • J. (newspaper) • John Sartain • laborer • Lecture • Ligeia • Literature • mansion • master of the macabre • Memoir • Metzengerstein • Monthly Magazine • Mr. • Mrs. • narrative • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Neilson Poe • Never Bet the Devil Your Head • newspaper • New York City • New York Public Library • New York University • Novel • panic of 1837 • Physician • Poe Returning to Boston • Poe Toaster • Poetry • premises • Princeton University Press • Publication • Publishing • Racism • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Raven Society • residence • Rittenhouse Square • Rufus Wilmot Griswold • Satire • Schuylkill River • S. (Dorst novel) • Shockoe Hill Cemetery • Slavery • Some Words with a Mummy • Southampton Row • stanza • suburb • Tamerlane and Other Poems • tavern • terence • The Black Cat • The Business Man (short story) • The Cask of Amontillado • The Fall of the House of Usher • The Gold-Bug • The Man of the Crowd • The Man That Was Used Up • The Masque of the Red Death • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • The Other Hand • The Pit and the Pendulum • The Poetic Principle • The Premature Burial • the purloined letter • The Raven • The Stylus • The tell-tale heart • Thomas Dunn English • Thou Art the Man • To Helen • Ulalume • urbanization • Washington Irving • Writer • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21208-2 / 0691212082
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21208-1 / 9780691212081