Edgar Allan Poe : a life / Richard Kopley.

Author/creator Kopley, Richard author.
Format Book
PublicationCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025.
Descriptionpages cm
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General note"Written by one of the world's leading experts on the life and literature of Edgar Allan Poe, this biography is a rich and rewarding study for the general reader as well as for the seasoned scholar. Richard Kopley combines a biographical narrative of Poe's enduring challenges-including his difficult foster father, his personal losses, his great struggles with depression and alcoholism, and the poverty that dogged his existence-with close readings of his work that focus not only on plot, character, and theme but also on language, allusion, and structure in a way that enhances our understanding of both. While incorporating past Poe scholarship, this volume also relates unknown stories of Poe culled from privately held letters unavailable to previous biographers, presenting a range of groundbreaking archival discoveries that illuminates the man and his oeuvre in ways never before possible"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Kopley, Richard, Edgar Allan Poe Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025 9780813952246
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2024041125
ISBN9780813952239 (hardcover)
ISBN0813952239
ISBN(ebook)

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Joyner General Stacks PS2631 .K66 2025 ✔ Available Place Hold