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Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1990
Subject: LCSH
Literature and medicine, Medicine--History, Phrenology in literature
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Abstract
"Poe translates medical descriptions into Gothic apparatus and establishes a double motif, for the narrator in telling us about these symptoms seems to ascribe them to mind and imagination even while noting the physicality of his surroundings with almost clinical detail." -- p. 147
Repository Citation
Sloane, David E. “Usher’s Nervous Fever: The Meaning of Medicine in Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’,” Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu, Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990, pp. 146-153. http://eapoe.org/papers/psbbooks/pb19901n.htm
Publisher Citation
Sloane, David E. “Usher’s Nervous Fever: The Meaning of Medicine in Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’,” Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu, Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990, pp. 146-153. http://eapoe.org/papers/psbbooks/pb19901n.htm
Comments
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