Poe's Children: Connections between Tales of Terror and Detection - Softcover

Magistrale, Tony; Poger, Sidney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820440701 ISBN 13: 9780820440705

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

This study traces Edgar Allan Poe’s contribution to the Gothic tradition and his invention of the detective tale. It explores the connections between these genres in British and American writers influenced by Poe, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Harris, and Stephen King. This book also examines women writers strongly influenced by Poe, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton. The last chapter of the volume considers films – in particular, the Roger Corman Poe series, Chinatown, Seven, and Blade Runner – that connect the horror and detective genres.

About this title

About the Author:

The Authors: Tony Magistrale is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is widely published in the Anglo-American Gothicisim field. His most recent book is The Poe Encyclopedia. He is the author of another volume published by Peter Lang entitled Writing Across Culture. He has received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Sidney Poger is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He received his Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He is widely published in journals on various topics and genres.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0820440701
• ISBN 13: 9780820440705
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 148