Another French Face: Maurice Rollinat's Musical Interpretations of Poe's Poetry Available to Purchase

bruce i. weiner is Professor Emeritus of English at St. Lawrence University, where he began teaching in the fall of 1977, after having spent a year at Michigan State University. His interest in Maurice Rollinat's adaptations of Poe's works developed while directing St. Lawrence's program abroad in Rouen, France. Early in his career he participated in NEH-sponsored seminars at the University of Pennsylvania and the American Antiquarian Society, where he became interested in the relationships between magazine and book publishing and the profession of authorship in early America. He has published essays on early American and British magazines and the influence of magazine and book publishing on authors such as Poe, Irving, and Hawthorne. More recently he has been researching and writing about ideas of “nation” and “home” in early American literature.