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The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst

Hopkins Press Podcast 3.8: The Poe/tics of Reception: Poe Studies on 20 Years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle

To accompany our podcast interview with Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross about the forthcoming Poe Studies issue celebrating 20 years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle, we have assembled a Poe-focused reading list, featuring highlight articles from Poe Studies, as well as a selection of articles from other journals in the Hopkins Press roster. 

All articles will be free to read through 30 May 2025

The Critical Purchase of Fraudulence
Eliza Richards
Poe Studies
Volume 45, Number 1, 2012

Outsourcing "The Raven": Retroactive Origins 
Eliza Richards
Victorian Poetry
Volume 43, Number 2, Summer 2005

Lyric Telegraphy: Women Poets, Spiritualist Poetics, and the “Phantom Voice” of Poe
Eliza Richards
The Yale Journal of Criticism
Volume 12, Number 2, Fall 1999

Emma Lazarus: Professional Exile
Elissa Zellinger
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Volume 12, Number 2, Winter 2024

Longing for Annabel: Queer Love and the Melancholic Critic
Ben Bascom
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Volume 11, Number 2, Fall 2023

"Gaze On!" The Transformations of Pygmalion and Galatea in the Poe-Osgood Affair
Christa Holm Vogelius
Poe Studies
Volume 51, 2018

"More Than the Enormities of an Elah-Gabalus": Reading Poe's "William Wilson" as Transgender Narrative
Paul Christian Jones
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory
Volume 81, Number 1, Spring 2025

The Female Figure of Poe’s Poetry: A Rehabilitation
Eve Célia Morisi
Poe Studies
Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, 2005

Rereading American Antebellum Lyric Poetry
Paula Kot
Poe Studies
Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, 2005

FREE ISSUE

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Volume 56, 2023

Special Feature: African American Writers Respond to Poe

 

 

 

 

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