Anthologizing Poe

This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize revere and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence however cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather his continued prominence as a writer owes much to the ways that Poe has been interpreted portrayed and packaged by an extensive group of mediators ranging from anthologizers editors translators and fellow writers to literary critics filmmakers musicians and illustrators. In this volume the work of presenting Poe’s texts for public consumption becomes a fascinating object of study in its own right one that highlights the powerful and often overlooked influence of those who have edited anthologized translated and adapted the author’s writing over the past 170 years.