Baudelaire’s Poe: Selections from the W.T. Bandy Collection

Philip Edward Phillips, Curator
Emily H. James and Erica I. Rodgers, Associate Curators

This exhibition would not be possible without the support of a 2010-2012 W.T. Bandy Fellowship at the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, and the special assistance of Lisa Ann Weiss, former Assistant Director of the W.T. Bandy Center and Senior Lecturer in French, and Yvonne Boyer, Librarian of the W.T. Bandy Center, who contributed significantly to the project’s realization. The curators are grateful to Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, former Director of the W.T. Bandy Center, for approving this project, and to Carla Beals, Coordinator of Digital Projects and Exhibits, Henry Shipman, Photograph and Digital Image Assistant, Phil Nagy, Digital Imaging Assistant, Suellen Stringer-Hye, Systems Librarian, and Tao You, Systems Librarian, for their technical support and dedication to making this exhibition available to the public. Finally, the curators offer their appreciation to Professor Robert F. Barsky, Director of the W.T. Bandy Center, for his support of this project and to the external reviewers, Sonya Isaak (Heidelberg University) and Harry Lee Poe (Union University) for their many helpful comments and suggestions.

Unless otherwise indicated, all materials featured in this exhibition are from the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library of Vanderbilt University.

Copyright © 2012-2014 W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, 419 21st Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37203-2427 U.S.A., Telephone: (615) 343-0372, (615) 322-6284

Bibliography of Suggested Reading

• Bandy, W. T. "New Light on Baudelaire and Poe." Yale French Studies 10 (1952): 65-69.
• Baudelaire, Charles. Edgar Allan Poe: Sa vie et ses ouvrages. Ed. W.T. Bandy. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
• Charles Baudelaire: Une Micro-Histoire by Raymond Poggenburg. Online database: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/baud-search.pl.
• Culler, Jonathan. “Baudelaire and Poe.” Zeitschriften füranzöche Sprache und Literatur. Ed. Klaus W. Hempfer and Peter Blumenthal. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. 61-73.
• Englekirk, John Eugene. Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature. New York: Institutio de las Españas en los Estados Unidos, 1934.
• Hyslop, Lois and Francis E., trans. and ed. Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers. State College, PA: Bald Eagle Press, 1952.
• Poe, Edgar Allan. Essays and Reviews. Ed. G.R. Thompson. New York: Library of America, 1984.
• __________. Œuvres en prose. Traduites par Charles Baudelaire. Texte établi et annoté par Y.-G. Le Dantec. Paris: NRF/Bibliothéque de la Pleiade, 1951.
• __________. Poetry and Tales. Ed. Patrick F. Quinn. New York: Library of America, 1984.
• __________. Seven Tales, with a French Translation and Prefatory Essay by Charles Baudelaire. Ed. W. T. Bandy. New York: Schocken Books, 1971.
• Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
• Quinn, Patrick F. The French Face of Edgar Poe. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1957.
• Thomas, Dwight, and David K. Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849. Boston: G.K. Hall and Company, 1987.
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. Online database: http://www.eapoe.org.
• Urakova, Alexandra. "'The Purloined Letter' in the Gift Book: Reading Poe in a Contemporary Context." Nineteenth-Century Literature 64.3 (2009): 323-346.
• Vines, Lois, ed. Poe Abroad: Influence, Reputation, Affinities. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.
• Ward, Patricia A. “New Notes on C.A. Bristed, Poe, and Baudelaire,” Bulletin Baudelairien 39.1-2 (2004): 111-125.

Respectfully dedicated to the memory of

Professor W.T. Bandy

fellow Vanderbilt alumnus and literary scholar

whose collection made this exhibition possible

Philip Edward Phillips (Vanderbilt University, MA 1992, PhD 1996) is professor of English and associate dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. He was awarded a W.T. Bandy Fellowship at the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies for 2010-2012 to create this exhibition. He is currently the president of the Poe Studies Association.

Contact: philip.phillips@mtsu.edu.