In The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City, Scott Peeples chronicles the master of macabre's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring mark on the writer
Scott Peeple's "The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City," challenges the popular conception of Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings. The Poe who emerges here is a man whose outlook and career were shaped by the cities where he lived, longing for a stable home.
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