Author: John Wooster Robertson
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Equally valuable for the chapter on Poe's "psychopathology" as well as for its exhaustive bibliographical treatment of Poe editions and publications, this work was published in 1921 by a lifelong Poe collector and physician and remains an essential work in Poe studies.
Edgar A. Poe
Author: John Wooster Robertson
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Equally valuable for the chapter on Poe's "psychopathology" as well as for its exhaustive bibliographical treatment of Poe editions and publications, this work was published in 1921 by a lifelong Poe collector and physician and remains an essential work in Poe studies.
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Equally valuable for the chapter on Poe's "psychopathology" as well as for its exhaustive bibliographical treatment of Poe editions and publications, this work was published in 1921 by a lifelong Poe collector and physician and remains an essential work in Poe studies.
Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421404915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 861
Book Description
Now in paperback—the classic, monumental biography of Poe by Arthur Hobson Quinn. Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421404915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 861
Book Description
Now in paperback—the classic, monumental biography of Poe by Arthur Hobson Quinn. Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Richard Henry Greene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Genealogist
Author: Walford Dakin Selby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Library Leaflet
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society
Author: Cork Historical and Archaeological Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cork (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cork (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Doctor's Wife Is Dead
Author: Andrew Tierney
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241979102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A mysterious death in respectable society: a brilliant historical true crime story In 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. She was the wife of a prosperous local doctor. So why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to the grim attic of the house she shared with her husband, and then exiled to a rented dwelling-room in an impoverished part of the famine-ravaged town? And why was her husband charged with murder? Following every twist and turn of the inquest into Ellen Langley's death and the trial of her husband, The Doctor's Wife is Dead tells the story of an unhappy marriage, of a man's confidence that he could get away with abusing his wife, and of the brave efforts of a number of ordinary citizens to hold him to account. Andrew Tierney has produced a tour de force of narrative nonfiction that shines a light on the double standards of Victorian law and morality and illuminates the weave of money, sex, ambition and respectability that defined the possibilities and limitations of married life. It is a gripping portrait of a marriage, a society and a shocking legal drama. 'An astonishing book ... a vivid chronicle of the unspeakable cruelty perpetrated by a husband on his spouse at a time when, in law, a wife was a man's chattel' Damian Corless, Irish Independent 'Opens in gripping style and rarely falters ... fascinating and well researched' Mary Carr, Irish Mail on Sunday (5 stars) 'Truly illuminating ... Tierney's exploration of the case's influence on Irish and English lawmaking and literature is particularly intriguing, drawing comparisons with Kate Summerscale's similar work in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' Jessica Traynor, Sunday Times 'Riveting ... meticulously researched and deftly told' Irish Examiner 'A nonfiction work with the pulse of a courtroom drama ... Tierney's book is a moving account of Ellen Langley's squalid last days, but it's also a study of Famine-era Irish society. Men dominate, be they grimly professional gents in tall hats and grey waistcoats or feckless scoundrels using women as chattel' Peter Murphy, Irish Times 'A dark tale of spousal abuse, illicit sex and uncertain justice, set against a backdrop of poverty and privilege, marital inequality and the deep religious divide between Catholics and Protestants. Tierney is an archaeologist, and his skill in unearthing the past is on display as he digs deep into the historical record of a murder case so shocking and controversial that it was debated in parliament. ... Tierney writes with passion ... and deftly weaves a plot that's filled with surprising twists and turns' History Ireland
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241979102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A mysterious death in respectable society: a brilliant historical true crime story In 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. She was the wife of a prosperous local doctor. So why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to the grim attic of the house she shared with her husband, and then exiled to a rented dwelling-room in an impoverished part of the famine-ravaged town? And why was her husband charged with murder? Following every twist and turn of the inquest into Ellen Langley's death and the trial of her husband, The Doctor's Wife is Dead tells the story of an unhappy marriage, of a man's confidence that he could get away with abusing his wife, and of the brave efforts of a number of ordinary citizens to hold him to account. Andrew Tierney has produced a tour de force of narrative nonfiction that shines a light on the double standards of Victorian law and morality and illuminates the weave of money, sex, ambition and respectability that defined the possibilities and limitations of married life. It is a gripping portrait of a marriage, a society and a shocking legal drama. 'An astonishing book ... a vivid chronicle of the unspeakable cruelty perpetrated by a husband on his spouse at a time when, in law, a wife was a man's chattel' Damian Corless, Irish Independent 'Opens in gripping style and rarely falters ... fascinating and well researched' Mary Carr, Irish Mail on Sunday (5 stars) 'Truly illuminating ... Tierney's exploration of the case's influence on Irish and English lawmaking and literature is particularly intriguing, drawing comparisons with Kate Summerscale's similar work in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' Jessica Traynor, Sunday Times 'Riveting ... meticulously researched and deftly told' Irish Examiner 'A nonfiction work with the pulse of a courtroom drama ... Tierney's book is a moving account of Ellen Langley's squalid last days, but it's also a study of Famine-era Irish society. Men dominate, be they grimly professional gents in tall hats and grey waistcoats or feckless scoundrels using women as chattel' Peter Murphy, Irish Times 'A dark tale of spousal abuse, illicit sex and uncertain justice, set against a backdrop of poverty and privilege, marital inequality and the deep religious divide between Catholics and Protestants. Tierney is an archaeologist, and his skill in unearthing the past is on display as he digs deep into the historical record of a murder case so shocking and controversial that it was debated in parliament. ... Tierney writes with passion ... and deftly weaves a plot that's filled with surprising twists and turns' History Ireland