Echoes of the Heart: Henry James’s Evocation of Edgar Allan Poe in “The Aspern Papers”

This essay re-examines Henry James’s complex relationship with Edgar Allan Poe by focusing on the echoes of one of Poe’s most celebrated tales, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843), that later reverberate in James’s “The Aspern Papers” (1888). It highlights the similarities, both in mindset and behavior, be...

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Main Author: Leonardo Buonomo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/1/55