Table of Contents

Contents: Baudelaire’s project: A refracted Poe – Hardwiring Poe in global memory – Poe, Baudelaire’s spectral original – Papery Poe – The French Poe – Williams’s defence of Poe – Eliot’s fantasy of Poe – Huxley on Poe: Defining vulgarity, prescribing disruption.

About the Author

Maria Filippakopoulou is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, where she is pursuing a project on quantitative research in the humanities. She has previously taught comparative literature and theory at the Universities of Edinburgh, East Anglia and Leeds. An experienced translator from French and English, she has published widely on the theory and practice of translation and reception studies.