The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

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The original essays in this set illuminate the influences that shaped Poe, contextualize his work, and assess his enduring impact on American and European poetry and fiction. A sketch of the historical and cultural forces surrounding Poe illuminates their influence on his aesthetic, a reception history examines Poe's enduring contributions to the short-story genre, the French Symbolist movement, and modernist aesthetics, a comparison of Poe's and Baudelaire's works reveals how the two authors exploited the duplicitous possibilities within the writer-reader relationship.