POE AND THE VISUAL ARTS
Barbara Cantalupo
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared as “Poe’s Visual Tricks,” Poe Studies / Dark Romanticism 38, nos. 1–2 (2005): 53–63.
An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared as “Poe’s Responses to Nineteenth-Century American Painting,” in Edgar Allan Poe (1809–2009): Doscientos años después, ed. Margarida Rigal Aragón and Beatriz González Moreno (Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha, 2010), 111–20.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cantalupo, Barbara, author.
Poe and the visual arts / Barbara Cantalupo.
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Summary: “Explores visual allusions in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to paintings and sculptures he saw in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Examines how his writings relate to the visual culture of his time”—Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-271-06309-6 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Knowledge—Art.
2. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Criticism and interpretation.
3. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Aesthetics.
4. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Technique.
5. Art and literature—United States—History—19th century.
6. Art in literature.
I. Title.
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FOR Burton R. Pollin
Contents
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Poe’s Exposure to Art Exhibited in Philadelphia and Manhattan, 1838–1845
2
Artists and Artwork in Poe’s Short Stories and Sketches
3
Poe’s Homely Interiors
4
Poe’s Visual Tricks
5
Poe’s Art Criticism
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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1 Francis Kearny, Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
2 John Sartain, Burning of Pennsylvania Hall
3 Savinien Edme Dubourjal, Anne Lynch
4 “Remains of the Waverley Hotel and Adjacent Houses on Broadway Two Days After the Fire”
5 Nicolas Poussin, L’hiver (Winter) or Le deluge (The deluge)
6 Salvator Rosa, Landscape with Figures
7 Francis William Edmonds, Facing the Enemy
8 Francis William Edmonds, study for Facing the Enemy
9 William Sidney Mount, The Trap Sprung
10 Asher Brown Durand, An Old Man’s Reminiscences
11 Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare
12 Henry Fuseli, illustration for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
13 Joseph Mallord William Turner, Fingal’s Cave, Staffa
14 Moritz Retzsch, The Study, with Faust at His Desk and Mephistopheles as a Dog
15 Thomas Sully, Portrait of Mary Anne Heide Norris
16 Thomas Sully, Portrait of Fanny Kemble
17 John Gadsby Chapman, The Lake of the Dismal Swamp (fire screen)