Richard Kopley, Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, Penn State DuBois, has written and edited books that focus on nineteenth-century American literature, with particular attention to Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. They are accessible and revealing works of analysis and discovery.
Books in order of publication:
Poe’s Pym: Critical Explorations – 1992
The Threads of the Scarlet Letter: A Study of Hawthorne’s Transformative Art – 2003
Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries – 2008
The Remarkable David Wordsworth
The Salem Belle: A Tale of 1692, by Ebenezer Wheelwright – 2016
Kenny and the Blue Sky – 2018
The Formal Center in Literature: Explorations from Poe to the Present – 2018
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life – 2025
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