Poe’s Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Dayan, Joan. Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe’s Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Elmer, Jonathan. Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Hoffman, Daniel. Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1972.

Kennedy, J. G. Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1987.

Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. London: Oxford University Press, 1941.

Punter, David. The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day. London: Longman, 1980.

Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941.

Rosenheim, Shawn. The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991.

Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. Tr. Richard Howard. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975.

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