English 3349F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Disavowed, Sensationalism, American Literature

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 3349F/G
• Professor: Alyssa MacLean

Document Summary

Reputation by literary authors has changed a lot. Short stories not long, sensational in nature, lurid nature of fear. Mother was an actress (unreputable) and father deserted family, both died. Raised by the allan family fostered him. John allan refused to support poe through school bc poe was gambling and drinking. Became an author to support himself, secretly married virginia clemm (aged 13) Resorts to stereotypes and fear of black violence in his fiction. Career was influenced by alcoholism at every points. Longfellow war longfellow never got in a fight with anyone, ending up fighting with poe. Poe was found in a ditch, died in hospital some suggestion that he"d been mobbed, duelled, drank himself to death. Whole family was in a profession that was seen as off the beaten track or disreputable. To be appreciated as an author, you need to be read sensationalism helps get read. Pulp fictions and magazines were doing stories like poe during the american.