Poe, "The house of Usher," and the American gothic [electronic resource] / Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm.
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is arguably one of the most dominant tales haunting American Gothic literature. This iconic story's influence lies in the inspired tensions between its simplicity and its inexplicable mingling of supernatural and psychological el...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The "Usher" Formula
- Feminist "Usher": Domestic Horror in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- Realistic "Usher": Narrative Imagination and James's The Turn of the Screw
- Cosmic "Usher": Lovecraft Adapts his "God of Fiction"
- Haunted "Usher": Moving towards Absolute Reality in The Haunting of Hill House
- Maternal "Usher": Bloch's Psycho and the Blood-Stained Goddess of Death
- Evil "Usher": Rosemary's Baby, Pop Culture, and the Evils of Consumerism
- Ceremonial "Usher":The Initiation of Jack Torrance and the Fall of the Overlook Hotel.