Benjamin Franklin Fisher, IV

Professor of English

• American literature (mainly 19th century, but up to 1940)
• Victorian literature (particular specialty in 1890s)
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Gothicism
• Detective Fiction
• Turn-of-the-century (19-20) women writers

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• The Very Spirit of Cordiality: The Literary Uses of Alcohol and Alcoholism in the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1978)
• The Gothic's Gothic (Garland, 1988)
• Frederick Irving Anderson (1877-1947): A Biobibliography (Brownstone (paper), 1987; Borgo (cloth),1988)
• Editor, Poe and His Times: The Artist in His Milieu (Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990)
• Various articles on American, Victorian, and Gothic topics