{"product_id":"edgar-allan-poe-a-critical-biography-paperback","title":"Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur Hobson Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eShawn James Rosenheim\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback--the classic, monumental biography of Poe by Arthur Hobson Quinn.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of \"The Red Mask of Death,\" \"The Black Cat,\" and \"The Murders of the Rue Morgue,\" Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. \"The Raven\" and \"The Tell-Tale Heart\" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" and \"The Descent into the Maelstrom\" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of \"The Masque of the Red Death\", \"The Black Cat\", and \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\", Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. \"The Raven\" and \"The Tell-Tale Heart\" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" and \"A Descent into the Maelstrom\" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesswork, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend and describes how they both were distorted by early biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur Hobson Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e (1875-1960) is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHistory of the American Drama\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eShawn J. Rosenheim\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Allan Poe to the Internet\u003c\/i\u003e, also available from Johns Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 864\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 26, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451585872050,"sku":"9780801857300","price":83.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/aa02dab40d4c9c5ed50eaa66be3db37a.webp?v=1778797716","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/edgar-allan-poe-a-critical-biography-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}