This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of place in
the life works and afterlife of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849). Poe and Place argues that place is
an important critical category through which to understand this classic American author in new
and interesting ways. The geographical places examined include the cities in which Poe lived
and worked specific locales included in his fictional works imaginary places featured in his
writings physical and imaginary places and spaces from which he departed and those to which he
sought to return places he claimed to have gone and places that have embraced him as their
own. The geo-critical and geo-spatial perspectives in the collection offer fresh readings of
Poe and provide readers new vantage points from which to approach Poe's life literary works
aesthetic concerns and cultural afterlife.
