1. Poe and the Motif of Madness
"The early nineteenth century was beguiled by things Gothic – quaint folklore, macabre legends, preternatural events, medieval history, forgotten tombs, ruined abbeys. ... - and at length even Pluto, who was now becoming old, and consequently somewhat peevish - even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill temper."9 There are, on the other hand, some biographers who proclaim that, "if the use of horror [including the contributing motif of madness] in fiction can be taken as an indication of horror in the mind of the author, then most of the tale-writers of the first hal...
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