God, Purioso, 1951).

In the Chronology of Important

Dates, Howarth, more thoroughly than Woodson, charts
relationships between Poes career and events of the
world, finding, for example, that in the year Poe was
taken into the household of John Allan, Napoleon was
beating a retreat from Moscow.
As Howarth ingenuously points out in his introduction, Poes popularity is a publishers delight (p. 2 ) ;
and these collections bear eloquent testimony to the eagerness of commercial publishers to capitalize upon that
fact, in however slipshod a manner. Consider, for example,
the editors chosento oversee these volumes. Carlson has
published scholarly articles on Poe, but neither Woodson
nor Howarth can be considered what the marketer of
their wares proclaims, an outstanding authority on Poe.
Indeed, the publishers blatantly advertise on the book
covers that Woodsons previous publications include
articles on Melville, Thoreau, Robert Lowell, and the
American literary tradition and that Howarth has p u b
lished an essay on Stephen Crane, edited A Thoreau Gazetteer, and is compiling a descriptive catalogue of Thoreaus manuscripts. In all three introductions, moreover,
the editors scramble to impose some pattern of relevance
upon Poes career and writings. Woodson, for example,
argues that Poes relationship with John Allan suffered
from a generation gap (p. 5 ) ; Carlson believes that
If we can speak of the psychedelic transcendentalism of
Woodstock, we should be able to appreciate the transcendental psychal impressions by which Poes main characters are turned on in a mind-expanding or souldeepening way (p. 4 ) ; more embarrassing yet, Howarth
proclaims that Poe is concerned with the problem of
identity: W e are all alone, and yet we all need each
other (p. 4).
Such nonsense should be recognized for what it iscommercial opportunism parading as scholarship. Though
Poe, an ironist well versed in the art of puffing, might
well enjoy these promotional efforts, even at his own
expense, it is proper that scholarly journals scrutinize
such Casebooks, Interpretations, and the like, lest
their quality deteriorate yet further.

Robert C. McLean, Washington State University

Poe Studies solicits manuscripts on any aspect of Poe the man

and writer, from any critical, historical, or scholarly approach.
We also welcome essays on Dark Romanticism generally: on
Romantic theory, on the Gothic and Grotesque, and on contemporaries or immediate predecessors of Poe in the dark tradition. In general, essays of less than 5,000 words are preferred, though longer essays can be considered. Time of report
is normally from two to four months. Manuscripts should conform with the recommendations of The MLA Style Sheet. Address manuscripts to the Editor, Poe Studies, Department of
English, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
99163.

The Fall of the House of Usher:

A Checklist of Criticism Since 1960
Robert L. Marts
Washington State University

This checklist is supplementary to those items listed in

Robert C. McLeans Poe in the Marketplace in this issue
of Poe Studies.
Adams, Robert Martin. Nil: Episodes in the Literary Conquest
of Void during the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford
U P, 1966), pp. 41-50.
Beebe, Maurice. Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts (New York:
New York U P, 1964), pp. 118-128 and passim.
Bonazza, Blaze O., and Emil Roy. The Fall of the House
of Usher, in Instructors Manual to Accompany Sttdks
in Fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1965) pp. 68-73.
Broussard, Louis. The Measure of Poe (Norman: U of Oklahoma
Press, 1969), p. 96 and passim.
Buranelli, Vincent. Edgar Allan Poe (New Haven, Conn.: GIlege and University Press, 1961), pp. 77-78 and passim.
Fiedler, Leslie A. Love and Death in the American Novel, rev.
ed. (New York: Stein and Day, 1966), pp. 415-416.
Gale, Robert L. Plots and Characters in the Fiction and Poetry
of Edgar Allan Poe (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1970),
pp. 31-32 and passim.
Gold, Joseph. Reconstructing the House of Usher, ESQ, No.
37 (1964), 74-76.
Goodwin, K. L. *Roderick Ushers Overrated Knowledge,
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 16 ( 1961), 173-175.
Hafley, James. A Tour of the House of Usher, ESQ, No. 31
( 1963), 18-20.
Hartley, Lodwick. From Crazy Castle to the House of Usher:
A Note toward a Source, Studies in Short Fiction, 2 ( 1965),
256-261.
Hayter, Alethea. Poe, Ch. IV of Opium and the Romantic
Imagination (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1968), pp.
132- 150.
Hill, John S. Poes Fall of the House of Usher and Frank
Norris Early Short Stories, Huntington Library Quarterly,
26 (1962), 111-112.
Hoffman, Michael J. The House of Usher and Negative Romanticism, Studies in Romanticism, 4 (1965), 158-168.
Jacobs, Robert D. Poe: Journalist and Critic (Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State U P, 1969), pp. 164-165.
Liebman, Sheldon. Poes Tales and His Theory of the Poetic
Experience, Studies in Short Fiction, 7 ( 1970), 582-596.
Link, Franz H. Edgar Allan Poe: Ein Dichter ZWiJChen Romantik
und Moderne (Frankfurt/Main: Athenaum, 1968), pp. 190198 and passim.
Lynen, John F. The Design of the Present: Essays on Time and
Form in American Literature (New Haven: Yale U P, 1969),
pp. 229-237.
Lubbers, Klaus. Die Todesszene und ihre Funktion im Kurzgeschichtenwerk uon Edgar Allan Poe (Miinchen: Max Hueber,
1961), pp. 54-72.
Mengeling, Marvin, and Frances Mengeling. From Fancy to
Failure: A Study of the Narrators in the Tales of Edgar
Allan Poe, The University Review, 33 ( 1967), 293-298;
34 (19671, 31-37.
Pollin, Burton R. Discoveries in Poe (Notre Dame: U of Notre
Dame Press, 1970), pp. 69-70, 84-86, 151, 206-208.
. Poes Pen of Iron, American Transcendental
Quarterly, No. 2 (1969), 16-18.

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Primitivism in Imogen, Bulletin of the New

York Public Library, 67 (1963), 186-190.
Porte, Joel. The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe,
Hawthorne, Melville, and James (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan U P, 1969), pp. 60-70.
Rans, Geoffrey. Edgar Allan Poe (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd,
1965), pp. 79-81.
Rein, David. Edgar Allan Poe: The Inner Pattern (New York:
Philosophical Library, 1960), pp. 74-78.
Ricardou, Jean. LHistoire dans lhistoire, Critique, 221-222
(1966), 711-729.
Robinson, E. Arthur. Order and Sentience in The Fall of the
House of Usher, PMLA, 76 (1961), 68-81.
Rogers, David. The Major Poems and Tales o f Edgar Allae
Poe (New York: Monarch Press, 1965), pp. 20-25.
Rose, Marilyn Gaddis. Usher as Myth in Greens Minuit, ROmmce Noter, 5 (1964), 110-114.
Samuels, Charles Thomas. Ushers Fall; Poes Rise, Georgia
Review, 18 (1964), 208-216.
Seelye, John. Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of the Grotesque and
Arabesque, in Landmarks of Americm Writing, ed. Hennig
&hen (New York: Basic Books, 1969), pp. 101-110.
Smith, Herbert F. Ushers Madness and Poes Organicism: A
Source, American Literature, 39 (1967), 379-389.
Staats, Armin. Edgar Allan Poes symbolistische Enahlkunst
(Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1967), pp. 118-130.
Stein, Roger B. John Ruskin and Aesthetic Thought in America,
1840-1900 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U P, 1967), pp.
83-85.
Stone, Edward. A Certain Morbidness: A View of American
Literature (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1969).
. Usher, Poquelin, and Miss Emily: The Progress
of Southern Gothic, Gewgia Reuiew, 14 (1960), 433-443.
Stovall, Floyd. Edgar Poe the Poet: Essayr New and Old on the
Nan and His Work (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia,
19691, pp. 257-259 and passim.
Tuttleton, James W. The Presence of Poe in This Side of
Paradise, English Language Notes, 3 (1966), 284-289.
Tytell, John. Anais Nin and The Fall of the House of Usher,
Under the Sign o f Pisces: Anuis Nin and Her Circle, 1
( 1970), 5-11.
Weber, Jean-Paul. Edgar Poe or The Theme of the Clock,
trans. in Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Robert
Regan (Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1967), pp.
79-97.
Wilcox, Earl J. Poes Usher and Usshers Chronology, Poe
Newsletter, 1 (1968), 31.

Editor:

G. R. Thompson, Washington State

University

Associate Editors:

Milton C. Petersen, Kathleen McLean,

Washington State University

Editorial Board:

Richard P. Benton, Trinity College

Eric W. Carlson, Uniuersity of
Connecticut
Patrick F. Quinn, Wellesley College
Claude Richard, UniuersitL de
Montpellter

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with occasional supplements. Subscriptions (beginning with
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Poe Studies
Volume 5, Number 1 (June 1972)

The Fall of the House of Usher:

A Symposium
Barton Levi St. Armand
Usher Unveiled: Poe and the
Metaphysic of Gnosticism

John L. Marsh
The Psycho-Sexual Reading of
The Fall of the House of Usher

Colin Martindale
Archetype and Reality in
The Fall of the House of Usher

Gerald M. Garmon
Roderick Usher: Portrait of the Madman as Artist 11
H. Wells Phillips
Poes Usher: Precursor of Abstract Art

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G. R. Thompson
The Face in the Pool: Reflections on the
Doppelganger Motif in
The Fall of the House of Usher

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Review
Robert C. McLean
Poe in the Marketplace

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Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Fall

of the House of Usher.
Thomas Woodson, ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of
Usher. Eric W. Carlson, ed. Columbus, Ohio:
Charles E. Merrill Literary Casebook Series, 1971.
Twentieth Century Znterpretations of Poes Tales.
William L. Howarth, ed. Englewood, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Bibliography
Robert L. Marrs
The Fall of the House of Usher:
A Checklist of Criticism Since 1960

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