Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.  

_{By Douglas Anderson.}  

_{New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2009. xi, 201 pp. $ 80.00.}  

The material world and the ability to transcend it are at the heart of this study of Edgar Allan Poe’s writings. In chapters such as “Problems of Disposal” and “The Gravity of Things,” Anderson contrasts the “weight of living” present in Poe’s life and work with, in Italo Calvino’s words, the “lightness of thoughtfulness.” This book provides a taxonomy of Poe’s literary imagination through suggestive literary analyses of the fictive environments that inhabit and undergird his stories, and it expands the purview of Poe studies as well as of nineteenth-century American literature.

_{Available in:. Access on: August 2015.}  

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