Introduction: Types of anthologies and types of Poe / Margarida Vale de Gato and Emron Esplin -- Deciding who belongs and where they fit : (proto)anthologies of the 1840s. Anthology, relational aesthetics, and the (dis)unity of affect : Poe collects people and Griswold frames Poe / Jana L. Argersinger -- Poe as anthologizer of himself / Harry Lee Poe -- The "flower-gemmed" story : gift book tradition and Poe's "Eleonora" / Alexandra Urakova -- Assembling Poe in English : editors, editions, and the college anthology. Selecting for posterity : Poe's early editors and the battle for a definitive collection / Jeffrey A. Savoye -- The scholars' Poe(s) : landmark editions of the twentieth century / Travis Montgomery -- Poe anthologies and editions in Britain : 1852-1914 / Bonnie Shannon McMullen -- Repatriating Poe : revising the Penguin Portable / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Textbook Poe : college American literature anthologies / Scott Peeples -- Setting tones and moods : genre anthologies and audiobooks. Usher II : Poe, anthologies, and the rise of science fiction / Stephen Rachman -- Edgar Allan Poe and the codifying and anthologizing of detective fiction / John Gruesser -- "'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 -- Poe's poetry anthologized / Philip Edward Phillips -- Wor(l)ding Poe abroad : anthologizers, editors, illustrators, and translators. Startling restitutions, significant partialities : the French come to the rescue of Edgar Allan Poe / Margarida Vale de Gato -- Popular Poe anthologies in the UK and France / Christopher Rollason -- Under the Spanish eye : illustrated Poe editions in Spain / Fernando González-Moreno and Margarita Rigal-Aragón -- A century of terror, ratiocination, and the supernatural : Poe's fiction in Argentina from Carlos Olivera to Julio Cortázar / Emron Esplin -- Editing and anthologizing Poe in Japan / Takayuki Tatsumi.
Summary:
"This book examines the processes of editing and anthologizing as innovative contributions to the field of literary culture, analyzing how single-author editions and multi-author anthologies have created distinct reputations for Edgar Allan Poe. The book explores how Poe's editors, anthologizers, and translators continue to shape his global images"-- Provided by publisher.
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