Poe Spaces: Within and Beyond the Spatial Turn

by Philip Edward Phillips (Editor)

Overview

This edited volume examines the life, works, and influence of Edgar Allan Poe from a variety of critical, biographical, and literary-historical perspectives through diverse lenses of spatiality. Eighteen contributions offer spatially-oriented investigations of the critical, intellectual, cultural, philosophical, and political spaces wherein Poe defined himself as a critic and artist. The collection comes together in four parts focusing on the Temporal and Atemporal Spaces, Social and Political Spaces, Imaginative and Psychological Spaces, and Transnational and Translated Spaces. Authors from the US, Japan, Spain, France, and Portugal represent Poe’s pervasive and ongoing international influence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031917233
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	10/29/2025
Series:	Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Philip Edward Phillips is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He previously edited Poe and Place (Palgrave 2018), which received the Poe Studies Association’s J. Lasley Dameron Award, among several other volumes. He also currently serves as President of the Poe Studies Association.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Poe's Spaces and Poetic Places.- Part 1: Temporal and Atemporal Spaces.- 2. Pathoregimes: Poe, Pestilence, Space and Time.- 3. The Spaces of Temporal Deviance in Poe's Fiction.- 4. Etna's Observatory: Poe's Eureka and Spaces of Literary and Scientific Recombination.- 5. When Worlds Collide: The Convergence of Science and Faith in Eureka.- Part 2: Social and Political Spaces.- 6. Poe's Two Tales of Bostonian Transcendentalism.- 7. Helen of Boston: Frogpondian Shadows in the Romance of Edgar A. Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman.- 8. Spaces of Courtship: Poe's Love Poems and the Language of Flowers.- 9. The Menace of the Mob: Poe and Jacksonian Populism.- 10. Purloined Voices, Paranoid Spaces: Poe, de Man, and Nixon.- Part 3: Imaginative and Psychological Spaces.- 11. Apocalypses of the Mind: De Quinceyan Models, Altered Consciousness, and Imagined Spaces in Poe's Poems (1831).- 12. Acoustic Effects in the Mesmeric Space of Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar".- 13. Poe's Arabesque Manner; Making Space for Satirical Reflection.- 14. Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" as Prison of the Mind: A Claustrophobic Space Imagined by Illustrators.- Part 4: Transnational and Translated Spaces.- 15. Poe, Benson, and the Development of New Aesthetic Space in Post-Bellum America.- 16. "Indestructible Fragments": Reevaluating Borges's Thoughts on Poe's Poetry.- 17. Placing J. de Granada's Neglected Translation of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".- 18. Poe Among the Spanish Fascist Writers: An Intellectual Space.- 19. From "Out of Space" to the Expanded Page: Poe and Brazilian Concrete Poetry.