Bodies Out of Place: Poe, Premature Burial, and The Uncanny
“Bodies Out of Place” discusses some of the ways Edgar Allan Poe confronted the taboos or boundaries associated with dying bodies. In tales such as “The Premature Burial,” “Ligeia,” and “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” Poe blurred the boundaries between life and death not only to show how str...
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University of Edinburgh
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/1877 |