Index

A

acrostics, 1

action, 1.1-1.2

adaptation, 1

aesthetics

of Burke, 1

of optimism, 1 , 2

of Poe, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

See also sublime and sublimity See also swerve or deviation

afterimage, 1

“

“Al Aaraaf”(Poe), 1

Boston Lyceum reading of, 1 , 2 , 3

epic nature of, 1

A

Allan, John, 1

biographical allusions to, 1.1-1.2

Poe manipulation of, 1.1-1.2

Poe treatment by, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4

antebellum America

Catholicism treatment in, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

Mother Goddess or Virgin Mary treatment in, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

race and racism in, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

appearance, photographic, 1.1-1.2

See also photography or daguerreotype, Poe

arabesque

for Schlegel, 1

in “Usher”, 1.1-1.2 , 2

architecture, 1

Aristotle, 1 , 2

armchair detective or flâneur

entertainment over information giving rise to, 1

media on crime giving rise to, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

narration, 1

Poe inventing, 1 , 2

roles played by, 1

See also “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”

Arnold, Elizabeth, 1

art, 1

for Burke and Kant, 1

“Gold-Bug” title as emblem of, 1

in “Usher”, 1.1-1.2 , 2

See also aesthetics

artifice and artificial systems

baroque, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

from Fauvel-Gouraud, 1

memory schemes involving, 1 , 2.1-2.2

artist, 1

astonishment

in Dupin trilogy, 1 , 2.1-2.2

sublimity in, 1

audience

for Poe, 1.1-1.2

for “Pym”, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

racism of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

aura

photography and lost, 1

of Poe, 1

authenticity

of photograph compared to daguerreotype, 1

technological reproduction abolishing, 1

authority, 1

See also paternalism and paternal authority

B

Bacon, Francis

mnemotechnics employed by, 1

secret writing of, 1.1-1.2

Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 1

baroque artifice, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

Barthes, Roland, 1

Baudelaire, 1 , 2 , 3

Benjamin, Walter, 1 , 2

biography and biographical allusions

paternalism relation to, 1.1-1.2

poetry evincing, 1 , 2

in “Tamerlane”, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

Bonaparte, Marie, 1 , 2

T

The Book of Gems: From the Poets and Artists of Great Britain (Hall), 1.1-1.2

B

Boston

Poe association with, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2

Poe criticism of, 1

Boston Lyceum appearance

“Al Aaraaf” reading at, 1 , 2 , 3

building significance in, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5

critical history of, 1.1-1.2

ego in outcome of, 1

family connection to, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Higginson on, 1 , 2.1-2.2

importance of, 1 , 2.1-2.2

perverse reaction to, 1

Poe’s own criticism concerning, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

brief prose tale

equivalence and contiguity in, 1

from Poe, 1 , 2

Brooks, Peter, 1 , 2

Burke, Edmund, 1 , 2

aesthetics of, 1

art for, 1

on language, 1 , 2

sublime for, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6.1-6.2 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

terror and horror for, 1

“

“Catholic Hymn” (Poe), 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

C

Catholicism

antebellum America treatment of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

femininity elevated and oppressed by, 1

gender issues in, 1.1-1.2

Holy Ghost role in, 1

“Morella” treatment of, 1.1-1.2

Mother Goddess resolution from, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Century Magazine, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

Christianity, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

Civil War, racism following, 1

Clio (Ussher)

sublime in, 1 , 2

“Usher” compared to, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

“Usher” impact from, 1.1-1.2

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

complexity, 1 , 2

compositional technique, 1 , 2

confessional narrative

paternalism and, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2

pathos in, 1

of self-negation, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

of “Tamerlane”, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

“

“The Conqueror Worm” (Poe), 1 , 2

C

consistency, in “Tamerlane”, 1

creation

deviation in, 1.1-1.2

textual sublimity in dissolution and, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

crime

in media, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

sex, 1.1-1.2

as urban environment element, 1

critical history

of Boston Lyceum appearance, 1.1-1.2

of “Tamerlane”, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

Critique (Kant), 1

cryptographic imagination, 1

“

“Culture” (Greenblatt), 1.1-1.2

C

Cushing, Caleb, 1 , 2

D

Davidson, Edward, 1

death, 1

“

“A Decided Loss” (Poe), 1 , 2

D

deconstruction

romantic irony compared to, 1

romantic sublimity relation to, 1

textual sublimity and, 1

de Man, Paul, 1

demonic possession, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Derrida, Jacques, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

See also deconstruction

destruction and renewal, 1

deviation See swerve or deviation

Diana, 1.1-1.2

Dickens, Charles, 1

diegetic sublimity See romantic sublimity

Dimmock, Thomas, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Players Club daguerreotype for, 1.1-1.2

Poe daguerreotype recontextualized by, 1 , 2

on Poe’s appearance, 1.1-1.2

Traylor daguerreotype for, 1.1-1.2

disaster, Boston Lyceum, 1.1-1.2

dissolution, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

Doane, Mary Ann, 1 , 2

Dupin trilogy (Poe)

astonishment in, 1 , 2.1-2.2

“Gold-Bug” compared to, 1 , 2

“Marie Rogêt” juxtaposed with rest of, 1 , 2

narrative order and disorder in, 1 , 2

narrator as sublimity carrier in, 1

power and subjection in, 1.1-1.2

sublimity shift from romantic to textual in, 1 , 2.1-2.2

See also “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” See also “The Purloined Letter”

E

Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1 , 2

ego, 1

emblem and emblematical methods

as baroque artifice, 1.1-1.2 , 2

in “Gold-Bug” title, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2

nature and definition of, 1 , 2 , 3

Poe affinity for, 1

from Quarles, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

“The Raven” evincing, 1

sublimity through vortex, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Emblemes, Divine and Moral (Quarles), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Enquiry (Burke), 1 , 2

entertainment, 1

epic, 1

Epicurus, 1

epistemology

afterimage in, 1

“Pym” as satirical racist, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

equivalence and contiguity

in brief prose tale, 1

in “The Gold-Bug”, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

in poetic function, 1

“

“Eulalie” (Poe), 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

E

Eureka (Poe), 1

“

“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe)

arabesque in, 1.1-1.2 , 2

architecture in, 1

art in, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Clio compared to, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

femininity represented in, 1

imagination refigured in, 1 , 2 , 3

negative sublime in, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6.1-6.2 , 7.1-7.2 , 8.1-8.2

as parody, 1

Ussher’s Clio impacting, 1.1-1.2

F

family, 1 , 2.1-2.2

See also Allan, John

fancy, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Fauvel-Gouraud, Francis, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

artifice employed by, 1

for Poe, 1.1-1.2

Feast for Wormes (Quarles), 1.1-1.2 , 2

feminism and femininity

Catholicism elevation and oppression of, 1

in “Eulalie”, 1 , 2

negative sublime through, 1

Poe’s work evincing, 1

sexuality disassociation from, 1.1-1.2 , 2

See also “Morella” See also Mother Goddess or Virgin Mary

film, 1

flâneur See armchair detective or flâneur

Franchot, Jenny, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Freud, Sigmund, 1

G

gender, 1.1-1.2

German idealism, 1

Gilbert, Sandra, 1

Gilroy, Paul, 1.1-1.2

“

“The Gold-Bug” (Poe)

adaptation applied to, 1

bi-part psyche of Legrand in, 1.1-1.2

Dupin compared to, 1 , 2

emblem in title of, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2

equivalence and contiguity in, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

interpretive authority in, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Jupiter's nature in, 1 , 2 , 3

narrative role of beetle in, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

secrecy and ciphers in, 1

G

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1.1-1.2

Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1.1-1.2

grotesque and grotesqueness See quaintness and grotesqueness

Gubar, Susan, 1

H

Hall, Samuel Carter, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

Halliburton, David, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Hegel, G. W. F.

identity defined by, 1

sublation from, 1 , 2

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1 , 2.1-2.2

hoax, 1.1-1.2

Holy Ghost, 1

horror, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Hull, Richard, 1

I

identity

Hegel defining, 1

Poe on, 1 , 2

swerve of individual, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

idol, 1.1-1.2 , 2

images and pictures, 1

See also photography or daguerreotype, Poe

imagination

cryptographic, 1

fancy compared to, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Poe’s reconfiguration of, 1.1-1.2 , 2

sensuous world less powerful than, 1

“Tamerlane” and Poe's thinking regarding poetic, 1

“

“The Imp of the Perverse” (Poe)

language of, 1.1-1.2

swerve in, 1 , 2.1-2.2

I

individual, 1

information, 1

Inquiry (Burke), 1

instantaneity, 1

interpretive authority, 1 , 2.1-2.2

intimacy, language for, 1.1-1.2

J

Jacobs, Robert D., 1

Jakobson, Roman, 1

Jewett, Helen, 1.1-1.2

K

Kant, Immanuel, 1 , 2

art for, 1

on sublimity, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

L

language

Burke on, 1 , 2

intimacy through, 1.1-1.2

perversity on level of, 1 , 2.1-2.2

swerve through, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

of textual sublimity, 1

“

“Linguistics and Poetics” (Jakobson), 1

L

literature

clinamen in, 1

Poe conception of, 1 , 2

race and racism in relation to marketplace of, 1 , 2.1-2.2

swerve achieved in, 1 , 2

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1 , 2

Longinus, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6

loss and sorrow, 1.1-1.2

Lucretius, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

M

madness, 1.1-1.2

T

The Madwoman in the Attic (Gilbert and Gubar), 1

M

Maio, Samuel, 1

“

“The Man of the Crowd” (Poe), 1 , 2

M

maternal longing and identification

of Poe, 1.1-1.2

in “Tamerlane”, 1 , 2

media

account inconsistency, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

armchair detective and crime in, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

crime in, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

print, rise of, 1

sensationalism, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2

memory, 1.1-1.2

artificial systems for, 1 , 2.1-2.2

images for stimulating, 1

misinterpretation

of race and racism, 1.1-1.2 , 2

reader, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5

misrecognition, 1 , 2

mnemotechny and mnemotechnics

Bacon employing, 1

nature of, 1

phreno-, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2

modernist, photography, 1 , 2

“

“Morella” (Poe)

Catholicism treatment in, 1.1-1.2

Mother Goddess demonized in, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Mother Goddess essence transference in, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4

Mother Goddess in, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2

Virgin Mary resemblance to, 1

M

Morrison, Toni, 1

Morse, Samuel F. B., 1

mortality, 1

Mother Goddess or Virgin Mary, 1 , 2

antebellum America treatment of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

in “Catholic Hymn”, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

Catholicism resolution regarding, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Christianity treatment of, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

Diana and other goddess links to, 1.1-1.2 , 2

as idol, 1.1-1.2 , 2

in “Morella”, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2

“Morella” and essence transference of, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4

Morella resemblance to, 1

patriarchal authority demonizing and marginalizing, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2

Poe experience and treatment of, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4

worship sites for, 1 , 2.1-2.2

“

“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (Poe)

armchair detective in, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2

crime in urban environment as part of, 1

media inconsistency and sensationalism in, 1.1-1.2

other Dupin tales juxtaposed with, 1 , 2

reenactment used in, 1

voyeurism predicted by, 1

N

narrative

Dupin trilogy order and disorder in, 1 , 2

“Gold-Bug” and role of beetle in, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

See also confessional narrative

“

“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (Poe)

audience and satirical hoax in, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

Pym as author of, 1

Pym as surrogate reader and misinterpretation in, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5 , 6.1-6.2 , 7

race and literary marketplace in, 1 , 2.1-2.2

as satirical racist epistemology, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

savagery in, 1

scholarship on race in, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

N

narrator or narration

armchair detective, 1

overconfidence displayed in, 1

romantic irony of, 1.1-1.2

sublimity carried by, 1 , 2 , 3

“

“Notes on Poe” (Dimmock), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6

See also photography or daguerreotype, Poe

O

object

subject interaction with, 1

sublime and role of, 1 , 2 , 3

Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning (Bacon), 1

On the Nature of the Universe (Lucretius), 1.1-1.2

optimism, aesthetics of, 1 , 2

P

parody, 1

paternalism and paternal authority

authority response shaped by, 1

biographical allusions and, 1.1-1.2

confessional narrative and, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2

scapegoat for rejecting, 1 , 2

“Tamerlane” rejecting, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2

See also patriarchal authority

pathos, 1

patriarchal authority

female sexuality subverted by, 1.1-1.2

Mother Goddess demonized and marginalized under, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2

penny press See media

perception, altered, 1

Peri Hypsous (Longinus), 1 , 2 , 3

perversity

Boston Lyceum appearance and reaction of, 1

language and, 1 , 2.1-2.2

principle of, 1

of sentiment, 1

swerve of, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

“

“The Philosophy of Composition” (Poe), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

“The Philosophy of Furniture” (Poe), 1 , 2 , 3

P

photography or daguerreotype, Poe

appearance in, 1.1-1.2

aura lost through, 1

authenticity of, 1

as “brilliant victim”, 1

comparison of, 1

death and final, 1.1-1.2

denotative status of, 1

film compared to, 1

instantaneity sought in, 1

involvement in, 1 , 2

as modernist, 1 , 2

nature and time involved in, 1

perception mode altered through, 1

Players Club, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

portrait, significance of, 1.1-1.2

present moment and historicity in, 1 , 2

race, racism, technological reproduction, and, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

reanimated and recontextualized through, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6.1-6.2

supernatural nature of, 1

Thompson, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5 , 6.1-6.2 , 7

Traylor, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

Ultima Thule, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Phreno-Mnemotechny; or The Art of Memory (Fauvel-Gouraud), 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2

plagiarism, 1 , 2

Players Club daguerreotype, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

plot, adaptation in, 1

Poe, David, 1.1-1.2

Poe, Edgar Allan

aesthetics of, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

Allan manipulated by, 1.1-1.2

Allan treatment of, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4

armchair detective invented by, 1 , 2

audience for, 1.1-1.2

aura of, 1

baroque artifice employed by, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Baudelaire on sublimity of, 1 , 2 , 3

Boston association for, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2

Boston criticism from, 1

brief prose tale from, 1 , 2

complexity involving, 1 , 2

cryptographic imagination of, 1

death and final image of, 1.1-1.2

Fauvel-Gouraud for, 1.1-1.2

feminist undercurrents for, 1

German idealism evinced by, 1

identity for, 1 , 2

imagination reconfigured by, 1.1-1.2 , 2

literature for, 1 , 2

Longfellow criticism from, 1 , 2

maternal identification of, 1.1-1.2

misrecognition of, 1 , 2

Mother Goddess experience and treatment by, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4

paternal authority struggle for, 1.1-1.2

on plagiarism, 1 , 2

poetic sentiment treatment by, 1 , 2

Quarles affinity from, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

Quarles name appropriated by, 1.1-1.2

race and racism treatment by, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7.1-7.2 , 8

religion treatment by, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2

secret writing resonance for, 1

sublime as interest for, 1

subversive in work of, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

vortex in fiction of, 1 , 2

Williams on American literary originality of, 1

Woodberry series on, 1.1-1.2 , 2

See also Boston Lyceum appearance See also Dupin trilogy See also photography or daguerreotype, Poe See also sublime and sublimity See also specific works

Poe, Eliza, 1.1-1.2

Poe: A Phenomenological View (Halliburton), 1

“

“Poe in New York” (Woodberry), 1 , 2

See also photography or daguerreotype, Poe

P

poetic function, 1

“

“The Poetic Principle” (Poe), 1

P

poetic sentiment, 1 , 2

poetry, biographical allusions in, 1 , 2

power and subjection

in “The Purloined Letter”, 1 , 2

as sublimity dynamics, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Pratt, William Abbott, 1

background of, 1

Players Club daguerreotype by, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

on Poe’s appearance, 1.1-1.2

Thompson daguerreotype by, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

Traylor daguerreotype by, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

print media, 1

Protestants See antebellum America

pseudonym, 1 , 2

“

“The Purloined Letter” (Poe), 1

armchair detective invented in, 1

narrator overconfidence in, 1

object in, 1

power and subjection in, 1 , 2

romantic sublimity and irony in, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

subject interaction with object in, 1

sublimity in, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

See also textual sublimity

Q

quaintness and grotesqueness, 1 , 2 , 3

Quarles, Francis

Emblemes from, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

emblems from, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Feast for Wormes of, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Hall on, 1 , 2

on mortality, 1

Poe affinity for, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

Poe appropriating name of, 1.1-1.2

quaintness and grotesqueness for, 1 , 2 , 3

religious reference in work of, 1 , 2

Thoreau indebtedness to, 1

R

race and racism

in antebellum America, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

audience, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

average, 1 , 2

contingency-based, 1

literary marketplace in relation to, 1 , 2.1-2.2

misinterpretation of, 1.1-1.2 , 2

photography of Poe and, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

Poe treatment of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7.1-7.2 , 8

post Civil War, 1

“Pym” as satirical epistemology of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

“Pym” scholarship on, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

subversive for attacking, 1

technological reproduction and, 1 , 2 , 3

See also “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”

Radcliffe, Anne, 1.1-1.2 , 2

“

“The Raven” (Poe)

emblematic construal in, 1

loss unabated in, 1

pseudonym used in, 1 , 2

R

reader

misinterpretation, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5

“Pym” title character as surrogate, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

reanimate and recontextualize, through photography, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6.1-6.2

religion

Christian, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

Poe’s treatment of, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2

Quarles' work referencing, 1 , 2

scapegoat in, 1

See also Catholicism See also Mother Goddess or Virgin Mary

renewal See destruction and renewal

Roads to Rome (Franchot), 1

Rogers, Mary, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2

See also “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”

roles See specific topics

romantic irony

deconstruction compared to, 1

in “The Purloined Letter”, 1.1-1.2 , 2

romantic and textual sublimity interaction with, 1

of Schlegel, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

romantic sublimity

deconstruction relation to, 1

defined, 1

in “The Purloined Letter”, 1 , 2

romantic irony interplay with textual and, 1

textual sublimity replacing, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

Rosenheim, Shawn, 1

S

savagery, 1

scapegoat

artist as, 1

paternalism rejected through, 1 , 2

in religion, 1

in “Tamerlane”, 1.1-1.2

Schlegel, Friedrich

arabesque for, 1

romantic irony from, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

scholarship, on race and racism, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2

secret writing, ciphers, and cryptology, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

artificial memory schemes in, 1

of Bacon, 1.1-1.2

in “The Gold Bug”, 1

Poe resonance with, 1

“

“The Self and the World: Poe's Early Poems” (Jacobs), 1

S

self-negation, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3

sensationalism

“Marie Rogêt” commentary on media, 1

media, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2

sensuous world, 1

sentiment, perversity of, 1

sex and sexuality

crime involving, 1.1-1.2

in “Eulalie”, 1 , 2

femininity and disassociation from, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Victorian era and reconfiguring, 1.1-1.2 , 2

Southern Literary Messenger, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

subject, 1

sublation, 1 , 2

sublime and sublimity

action inspired by, 1.1-1.2

architecture and negative, 1

in astonishment, 1

Baudelaire on Poe’s, 1 , 2 , 3

Burke on, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6.1-6.2 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

in Clio, 1 , 2

destruction and renewal of, 1

engagement with, 1.1-1.2

femininity for negative, 1

individual seeking thrill of, 1

for Kant, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

language of textual, 1

madness relation to, 1.1-1.2

narrator and narration carrying, 1 , 2 , 3

negation and reconfiguration of theories of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6.1-6.2 , 7.1-7.2 , 8.1-8.2

object role in, 1 , 2 , 3

power and subjection as dynamics of, 1.1-1.2 , 2

romantic to textual shift in, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

terror role in, 1 , 2.1-2.2

Ussher on, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6.1-6.2 , 7

vortex as emblem of, 1.1-1.2 , 2

See also “The Fall of the House of Usher” See also “The Purloined Letter” See also romantic sublimity See also textual sublimity

subversive

Poe’s work evincing, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

racism attacked through, 1

supernatural, in photography, 1

swerve or deviation

in compositional technique, 1

in creation, 1.1-1.2

in “The Imp”, 1 , 2.1-2.2

of individual identity, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

through language, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

in literature, 1 , 2

perverse, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

“

“Tamerlane” (Poe), 1

biographical allusions in, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

confessional narrative of, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

consistency of writing with, 1

critical history of, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

demonic possession in, 1 , 2.1-2.2

maternal longing and identification in, 1 , 2

paternalism rejected in, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2

poetic imagination in, 1

scapegoat in, 1.1-1.2

T

Tamerlane and Other Poems (Poe), 1

Tate, Allen, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

technological reproduction

authenticity abolished by, 1

race, racism, and, 1 , 2 , 3

terror

horror juxtaposed with, 1.1-1.2 , 2

sublime and role of, 1 , 2.1-2.2

text See language

textual sublimity

creation and dissolution in, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2

deconstruction and, 1

defined, 1

language of, 1

romantic sublimity replaced by, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2

“

“The Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference”, 1

T

Thompson daguerreotype, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

Thompson, John Reuben, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3

Thoms, Peter, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2

Thoreau, Henry David, 1

Transcendentalism, 1

Traylor daguerreotype, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

U

Ultima Thule, 1.1-1.2 , 2

urban environment, crime in, 1

Ussher, James, 1

on sublimity, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6.1-6.2 , 7

terror role in sublime from, 1.1-1.2

See also Clio

V

Victorian era, sexuality in, 1.1-1.2 , 2

See also antebellum America

Virgin Mary See Mother Goddess or Virgin Mary

Voller, Jack G., 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6

vortex

in Poe’s fiction, 1 , 2

sublimity in emblem of, 1.1-1.2 , 2

voyeurism, 1

W

Weiskel, Thomas, 1

Whalen, Terrence, 1.1-1.2

will, overborne, 1 , 2

Williams, William Carlos, 1

women, 1

See also feminism and femininity

Woodberry, George E., 1 , 2 , 3

Poe series by, 1.1-1.2 , 2

on Traylor daguerreotype, 1 , 2

T

The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe (Griswold), 1

W

worship, Mother Goddess, 1 , 2.1-2.2

writing See secret writing, ciphers, and cryptology