Poe Spaces: Within and Beyond the Spatial Turn (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)

Winner of the Poe Studies Association’s 2025 J. Lasley Dameron Award for an Outstanding Essay Collection on Poe

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.

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.