Table of Contents

Contents: Fernando Galván: Poe versus Dickens: an Ambiguous Relationship – Sonya Isaak: Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire: The Artist as the Elite Victim – Ricardo Marín-Ruiz: Two Romanticisms but the Same Feeling: The Presence of Poe in Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s Leyendas – Margarita Rigal-Aragón: The Thousand-and-Second Dupin of Edgar A. Poe – Beatriz González-Moreno: Approaching the Dupin-Holmes (or Poe-Doyle) Controversy – Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo: «The Horrors Are Not To Be Denied»: The Influence of Edgar A. Poe on Ray Bradbury – Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan: Poe’s Poetry: Melancholy and the Picturesque – Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo: Functions and Values of Description, Metaphorical Image and Comparison in «Ligeia»: a Discursive-Rhetorical Study – José Antonio Gurpegui: John Allan versus Edgar Allan, or Poe’s Early Years – Ángel Galdón-Rodríguez: Chronology.

About the Author

The Editors: Beatriz González Moreno is Associate Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. Her main field of research is the analysis of the aesthetic categories in the Romantic period, focusing on the relevance of the sublime in relation to traditional beauty. On that subject, she has published a book, Lo sublime, lo gótico y lo romántico: la experiencia estética en el romanticismo inglés, and articles on the issue of gender and the sublime, focusing on female characters which defy traditional aesthetics and categorization.
Margarita Rigal Aragón is Associate Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. Her main field of research is the American Renaissance, focusing on Edgar Allan Poe’s works. On that subject, she has published a book, entitled Aspectos estructurales y temáticos recurrentes en la narrativa breve de Edgar Allan Poe as well as articles and chapters focusing on Poe’s works, life and reception, the Victorian Age, and the detective genre.