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Poe and the Imagination

Fri. March 20th, 2009 12:00 PM

Edgar Allan Poe challenged his contemporary world to greater exertions of imagination that would allow Americans to develop their own literature, creating the mystery story, science fiction, and the Big Bang theory along the way. A discussion of Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by author and Poe relative Harry Poe.


Moderator: Hoke Perkins

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Location:

UVa Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections
UVa Central Grounds
(434)924-6040
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Harry Lee Poe is Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, and volunteers as president of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum of Richmond. In addition to Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories, he has written 13 other books.

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