The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe by J. Gerald Kennedy & Scott Peeples

Author:J. Gerald Kennedy & Scott Peeples
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1.Allan Tate, “The Angelic Imagination: Poe and the Power of Words,” Kenyon Review 14, no. 3 (1952): 474. I wish to thank The Kenyon Review for permission to publish this excerpt.

2.Tate, “Angelic Imagination,” 455.

3.Critical studies that offer a substantive consideration of the angelic tales and “Mesmeric Revelation” include Daniel Hoffman, Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1972); David Halliburton, Edgar Allan Poe: A Phenomenological View (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973); J. Gerald Kennedy, Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987); and Michael J. S. Williams, A World of Words: Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988). The following journal articles or book chapters are also noteworthy in the context of Poe’s speculation on the soul, the afterlife, or the power of words: William Goldhurst, “Tales of the Human Condition,” in A Companion to Poe Studies, edited by Eric W. Carlson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), 149–167; Barbara Cantalupo, “Preludes to Eureka: Poe’s ‘Absolute Reciprocity of Adaptation’ in ‘Shadow’ and ‘The Power of Words,’ ” Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism 31, no. 1–2 (1998): 17–21; and Allan Emery, “Evading the Pit and the Pendulum: Poe on the Process of Transcendence,” Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism 38, no. 1–2 (2005): 29–42. For a consideration of the angelic tales in relation to questions of critical taste, see Stephen Rachman, “Rectangular Obscenities: Poe, Taste, and Entertainment,” in Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale (New York: Modern Language Association, 2008): 88–96.

4.Jonathan Elmer, Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), 95.

5.Elmer, Reading at the Social Limit, 95.

6.Elmer, Reading at the Social Limit, 96.

7.Kenneth Silverman, Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance (New York: HarperPerennial, 1991), 72.

8.Silverman, Edgar A. Poe, 76.

9.Kennedy, Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing, 10.

10.Kennedy, Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing, 17.

11.Kennedy, Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing, 21.

12.For notable scholarship considering “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion,” see Douglas Robinson, “Poe’s Mini-Apocalypse: ‘The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion,” Studies in Short Fiction 19, no. 4 (1982): 329–337; and Christian Kock, “The Irony of Oxygen in Poe’s ‘Eiros and Charmion,’ ” Studies in Short Fiction 22, no. 3 (1985): 317–321.

13.John 3:3 (King James Version).

14.John 1:1 (King James Version).

15.Poe, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” M 3: 1243.

16.Kennedy, Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing, 22–23.

17.Kennedy, Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing, 30.

18.Tate, “Angelic Imagination,” 461, 468.

19.Williams, A World of Words, 14.

20.Williams, A World of Words, 14.

21.Williams, A World of Words, 14.

22.Williams, A World of Words, 14.

23.Williams, A World of Words, 15; Cantalupo, “Preludes to Eureka,” 20n3.

24.Joan Dayan, Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe’s Fiction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 89, 89.

25.See Poe’s letter to James Russell Lowell, July 2, 1844 (CL 1: 448–452). Echoing Vankirk’s mesmeric-induced insights, Poe writes: “The unparticled matter, permeating & impelling, all things, is God. Its activity is the thought of God—which creates.

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