ENG5A: American Literature 1620-1865 (Hooper)

Zimmerman, Brett. "Frantic forensic oratory: Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'." Style, vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2001, p. 34+. Gale Literature Resource Center. 

 Tresch, John. “‘Matter No More’: Edgar Allan Poe and the Paradoxes of Materialism.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 42, no. 4, Summer 2016, pp. 865–898. EBSCOhost.

Băniceru, Ana Cristina. "Gothicizing Domesticity – The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe". Romanian Journal of English Studies 15.1 (2018): 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0002 

Iszáj, FruzsinaDemetrovics, Zsolt. "Balancing Between Sensitization and Repression: The Role of Opium in ihe Life and Art of Edgar Allan Poe and Samuel Taylor Coleridge." Substance Use & Misuse 46.13 (2011): 1613-1618. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.

The creative process contains both conscious and unconscious work. Therefore, artists have to face their unconscious processes and work with emotional material that is difficult to keep under control in the course of artistic creation. Bringing these contents of consciousness to the surface needs special sensitivity and special control functions while working with them. Considering these mechanisms, psychoactive substance can serve a double function in the case of artists. On the one hand, chemical substances may enhance the artists' sensitivity. On the other hand, they can help moderate the hypersensitivity and repress extreme emotions and burdensome contents of consciousness. The authors posit how the use of opiates could have influenced the life and creative work of Edgar Allan Poe and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ward, Alfred C. "Edgar Allan Poe: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'." Aspects of the Modern Short Story: English and American. University of London Press, 1924. 32-44. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson and Marie Lazzari. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.  

In this 1924 excerpt, "Ward notes with regard to “The Tell-Tale Heart” that Poe's short stories commonly deal with similar subject matter. He comments that Poe's narrative technique makes his stories powerful and effective. Ward states that Poe's works are "marred" by his common themes, including insanity.  (adapted from publisher's introduction).

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. "The Crowd Within: Poe’s Impossible Aloneness." Edgar Allan Poe Review 7.2 (2006): 50-64. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 188. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Literature Resource Center. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.

Weinstock surveys Poe’s “persistent thematization of the impossibility of being alone” as it recurs in his fiction and poetry. He asserts that for Poe, aloneness is impossible because, like the narrator of “The Man of the Crowd,” we are always “haunted” by curiosity about the lives of others (adapted from publisher's introduction).

Hoffman, Daniel. "Edgar Allan Poe: The Artist of the Beautiful." American Poetry Review 24.6 (1995): 11-18.Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.

Discusses the life and poetry of American author Edgar Allan Poe. Childhood; Tragedies which marked his life; Poe's first volume of poems, "Tamerlane"; Criticism and interpretation of his poems; Poe's influence on poets and authors that succeeded him.

Drain, Kim. "Poe's Death-Watches and the Architecture of Doubt." New England Review (10531297) 27.2 (2006): 169-177. Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.

This article relates the efforts of the author in rereading some of the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Approach used by Poe in writing; Composition of the poem "The Raven"; Opinions of Poe on the related fields of interior decoration and landscape gardening as expressed in his stories and essays   (adapted from publisher's introduction).