Date of Award

Summer 6-16-2012

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Mark Noble

Second Advisor

Paul Schmidt

Third Advisor

Calvin Thomas

Abstract

In my thesis I will discuss Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” in relation to the expectations that scholars have of the gothic genre. I will break this project into four chapters, along with an introduction: (Ch.1) a critical review of scholarship on Poe’s “Usher” that will demonstrate the difficulty in coming to a critical consensus on the tale, (Ch.2) a discussion of Brown’s outline of Gothic conventions, (Ch.3) a look at Poe’s “The Philosophy of Composition” juxtaposed with Aristotle’s Poetics to illumine aspects of Poe’s approach to writing and how it has been informed, and (Ch.4) a close reading of Poe’s “Usher.”

DOI

https://doi.org/10.57709/3096703

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