Poe's pervasive influence [presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association's Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in October 2009

The essays in this collection were originally presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association's Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in October 2009. All the essays in this volume deal with Poe's influence on authors from the United States and abroad; in addition, the collection also includes two examples of primary texts by contemporary authors whose work is directly related to Poe's work or life: an interview with Japanese detective novelist Kiyoshi Kasai and poems by Charles Cantalupo. This volume includes interpretative essays on international authors whose work reflects back on Poe’s work: Edogawa Rampo from Japan; Lu Xun from China; Fernando Pessoa, Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão from Portugal; Angela Carter from England; and Nikolai Gogol from Russia. The essays in this collection complement and extend a project begun by Lois Vines' Poe Abroad (University of Iowa Press, 1999) and take a wider perspective on Poe's influence with essays on Poe's impact on American authors William Faulkner, Mary Oliver, Joyce Carol Oates, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Jacobs. Contents 7 Introduction 9 1 Pathologizing Modernity: The Grotesque in Poe and Rampo 17 2 Visionary Media in Edgar Allan Poe and Edogawa Rampo 33 3 Poe’s Shadow in Japan: Alternative Worlds and Failed Escapes in Edogawa Rampo’s The Strange Tale of Panorama Island 43 4 Interview with Kiyoshi Kasai 53 5 Lu Xun and Poe: Reading the Psyche 59 6 “Breaking the Law of Silence”: Rereading Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” and Gogol’s “The Portrait” 71 7 “What Has Occurred That Has (Never) Occurred Before”: A Case Study of the First Portuguese Detective Story 83 8 “Around Reason Feeling”: Poe’s Impact on Fernando Pessoa’s Modernist Proposal 99 9 Poe in Place 117 10 Ligeia—Not Me!: Three Women Writers Respond to Poe 125 11 Gothic Windows in Poe’s Narrative Space 135 12 Poe’s Progeny: Varieties of Detection in Key American Literary Texts, 1841–1861 147 Index 159 About the Contributors 167 Poe's Pervasive Influence includes interpretative essays on international authors whose work reflects back on Poe's work: Edogawa Rampo from Japan; Lu Xun from China; Fernando Pessoa, Eça de Queirós, and Ramalho Ortigáo from Portugal; Angela Carter from England; and Nikolai Gogol from Russia. The essays in this collection complement and extend a project begun by Lois Vines's Poe Abroad (1999) and take a wider perspective on Poe's influence with essays on Poe's impact on American authors William Faulkner, Mary Oliver, Joyce Carol Oates, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Jacobs."-- Back cover Complementing and extending a project begun by Lois Vines, this book includes essays on Poe's influence abroad from Japanese author, Edogawa Rampo, to Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, and takes a wider perspective on Poe's influence by including essays on Poe's impact on American authors from Harriet Jacobs to Joyce Carol Oates.