The Fall of the House of Usher Summary
Edgar Allan Poe

Biography EssayWith a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantia... Read more

On Thursday, September 27, 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe left Richmond, Virginia by boat, heading for his home in New York. Poe never reached his destination. After visiting a friend in Baltimore on Se... Read more

Popular but not always respected in his own time, Edgar Poe is significant today not only for the quality of his best work but also for his influence on later writers. His poems were admired, especial... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe 's importance as a short-story writer may be seen in his pioneering contributions to the genre, in his theory of the tale, in the rich variety, meaning, and significance of his stories... Read more

In the following essay, Gargano theorizes that the inability of the characters in Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher” to explain their ordeal is a result of the apocalyptic vis... Read more

In the following essay, May discusses sibling relationships in the context of nineteenth-century literature, citing “The Fall of the House of Usher” as a prophetic tale anticipating the ... Read more

In the following essay, Ljungquist discusses Poe's pictorial technique and the role of neoclassical and Romantic aesthetic theories in the context of “The Fall of the House of Usher.... Read more

In the following essay, Howes presents an interpretation of “The Fall of the House of Usher” as an elegiac romance, a form of storytelling that blends romance and elegy to present the ta... Read more

In the following essay, Jordan focuses on Poe's treatment of crimes against women, comparing his writing to that of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Jordan proposes that Poe's women-centered tales a... Read more

In the following essay, Thompson analyses “The Fall of the House of Usher” as a tale of Gothic fiction. In her article “Explanation in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,&#... Read more

Lawrence was a modern English novelist, poet, and essayist noted for his introduction of the themes of modern psychology to English fiction. In his lifetime, he was a controversial figure, both for th... Read more

In the following essay, Uba diagnoses the cause of the Ushers ' strange maladies by relating them to medical and psychological knowledge current at the time Poe wrote "The Fall of the Ho... Read more

In the following essay, May undertakes a feminist analysis of the relationship between Madeline and Roderick Usher, and its implications in Victorian society. Matthew Arnold was in a distinct minor... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1949, Abel offers a symbolic interpretation of "The Fall of the House of Usher. " By common consent, the most characteristic of Poe�... Read more

In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture to the Library of Congress in 1959, Wilbur discusses Poe's allegorical representation of the poetic soul in conflict with the external ... Read more

Porte is an American educator and critic. In the following essay, he observes a conflict between Romantic and Realist attitudes in "The Fall of the House of Usher. " Beginning with Po... Read more

Frank is an American educator and critic with a special interest in Gothic literature. In the following essay, he argues that the true villain of "The Fall of the House of Usher" is the ... Read more

"The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allan Poe, has baffled readers and critics. Some may see it as an attempt to create a horror story which frightens its readers, while others may focus on th... Read more

In "The Fall of The House of Usher," Edgar Allan Poe uses the house as a paradox to allude and foreshadow the fall of the Usher family. Poe used this analogy throughout the novel, giving the house ... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe is undoubtedly one of American Literature's legendary and prolific writers, and it is normal to say that his works touched on many aspects of the human psyche and personality. While ... Read more

Who Was Madeline? In the story "The Fall of the House of Usher" Usher's sister, Madeline was extremely ill with a mysterious disease, for a very long time. Once Usher thought that she was dead he bu... Read more