The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe

An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings; 1. The French Poe; 2. Visualizing Poe for a New Century; 3. Crossing the Fin de Siècle and the English Channel; 4. A Parergon for Poe: Arthur Rackham's Illustrations; 5. Postmodern Poe; Works Cited; Index.

About the author

Tony Magistrale is the author of 23 books and over 70 academic journal articles. He is a professor in the English department at the University of Vermont.

Jess Slayton has spent nearly her entire academic career grappling with the ekphrastic interchange between visual and textual arts. She revels in finding new illustrations for classic texts and has yet to find any she loves more than those done on Poe's work.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Magistrale, Magistrale Tony, Jessica Slayton
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781839990014
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-001-4
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series; Anthem Nineteenth-Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / Subjects & Themes / General, Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General, Romanticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Anthologies, The visual, decorative or fine arts: treatments and subjects, particular Poe works; illustrators and other visual artists