Peeples
Scott Peeples Scott Peeples is Professor of English at the College of Charleston. He has published extensively on nineteenth-century American literature, most recently the books The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Princeton Univ. Press) and The Oxford Companion to Edgar Allan Poe (co-edited with J. Gerald Kennedy). Follow him on Twitter View all […]
The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City, by Scott Peeples with photographs by Michelle Van Parys
“Scott Peeples has plumbed the deep psychic landscape of Poe with passion and skill, bringing us back to his writing again and again with fresh insights. The Man of the Crowd is beautifully written and remarkably adroit. A major accomplishment.” — Jay Parini, author of Robert Frost and Empire of Self: A Life of Fore Vidal How four American […]
THE WANDERER: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Scott Peeples with photos by Michelle Van Parys
University of Charleston English professor, Scott Peeples, with University of Charleston photography professor Michelle Van Parys offer a reexamination of Poe, who changed addresses on average once a year throughout his adult life, through the lens of the American cities that shaped his life and writing. (Princeton University Press/World Rights/Spring 2019)