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Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston
Christopher Byrd Downey
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2020-02-24
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN14396691559781439669150
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YB7GDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋An in-depth history of Poe’s time spent in the South Carolina port city where he secretly enlisted in the United States Army.

Edgar Allan Poe arrived in Charleston in November 1827 chased by storms, both literal and figurative. Some of the author’s previous indiscretions caused him to enlist in the U.S. Army six months earlier under the pseudonym Edgar A. Perry. The more than one year that Poe spent stationed at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island has been shrouded in mystery for nearly two centuries because Poe deliberately tried to hide his stint in the army. But despite Poe’s deceptions, the influences and impressions of the Lowcountry permeated his life and writing, providing the setting for Poe’s most popular and widely read short story during his lifetime, “The Gold-Bug,” and perhaps providing the inspiration for the real Annabel Lee. Author Christopher Byrd Downey details the hidden history of Poe in Charleston.