CRITICISM

Allen, Thomas Michael. “Out of the Fold: Difference in American Literary History.” Arizona Quarterly 55, no. 3 (autumn 1999): 135-50.

Evaluates the influence of Poe on the work of literary critic Barbara Johnson.

Brand, Dana. “Rear-View Mirror: Hitchcock, Poe, and the Flaneur in America.” In Hitchcock's America, edited by Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington, pp. 123-34. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Assesses Poe's influence on the renowned filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.

Bronfen, Elisabeth. “Risky Resemblances: On Repetition, Mourning, and Representation.” In Death and Representation, edited by Sarah Webster Goodwin and Elisabeth Bronfen, pp. 103-29. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Finds parallels between Poe's “Ligeia” and Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo.

Brown, Arthur A. “Literature and the Impossibility of Death: Poe's ‘Berenice.’” Nineteenth Century Literature 50, no. 4 (March 1996): 448-63.

Analyzes the role of death in Poe's story “Berenice.”

Brown, Byron K. “John Snart's Thesaurus of Horror: An Indirect Source of Poe's ‘The Premature Burial?’” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 8, no. 3 (summer 1995): 11-14.

Locates a possible source for “The Premature Burial.”

Carter, Steven. “The Two Terns: A Note on ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and Chapter II of Walden.” The Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 223 (spring 1998): 1-2.

Considers the image of the tern in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Henry David Thoreau's Walden.

Frey, Matthew. “Poe's ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” Explicator 54, no. 4 (summer 1996) 215-16.

Offers a reason for the fall of the house of Usher.

Frushell, Richard C. “Poe's Name ‘Ligeia’ and Milton.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 11, no. 1 (winter 1998): 18-20.

Suggests that Poe “appropriated the name Ligeia from Milton's Comus.”

Ginsberg, Lesley. “Slavery and the Gothic Horror of Poe's ‘The Black Cat.’” In American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative, edited by Robert K. Martin and Eric Savoy, pp. 99-128. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

Finds allusions to the slavery issue in “The Black Cat.”

Ljungquist, Kent P. “‘Raising More Wind’: Another Source for Poe's ‘Diddling’ and its Possible Folio Club Context.” Essays in Arts and Sciences XXVI (October 1997): 59-70.

Identifies the sources for the alternative titles of “Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences.”

Nelson, Dana D. “The Haunting of White Manhood: Poe, Fraternal Ritual, and Polygenesis.” American Literature 69, no. 3 (September 1997): 515-46.

Explores Poe's racial attitudes and interest in fraternal rituals in “Some Words with a Mummy.”

Whalen, Terence. “The Code for Gold: Edgar Allan Poe and Cryptography.” Representations 46 (spring 1994): 35-57.

Analyzes the relationship between “capitalism, cryptography, and the rise of mass culture in antebellum America” found in “The Gold Bug.”

Zimmerman, Brett. “Allegoria and Clock Architecture in Poe's ‘The Masque of Red Death.’” Essays in Arts and Sciences XXIX (October 2000): 1-16.

Examines Poe's concern with time in his story “The Masque of Red Death.”

Additional coverage of Poe's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 14; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 3; Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vols. 5, 11; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1640-1865; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 3, 59, 73, 74, 248, 254; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors and Poets; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Exploring Poetry; Exploring Short Stories; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 2; Mystery and Suspense Writers; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vols. 1, 16, 55, 78, 94, 97; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 1; Poetry for Students, Vols. 1, 3, 9; Poets: American and British; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, Vol. 4; St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers; St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, Ed. 4; Science Fiction Writers, Ed. 2; Short Stories for Students, Vols. 2, 4, 7, 8; Something About the Author, Vol. 23; Supernatural Fiction Writers; World Literature Criticism; World Poets; and Writers for Young Adults.