SOURCE: Stern, Julia. “Double Talk: The Rhetoric of The Whisper in Poe's ‘William Wilson.’” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 40, no. 3 (September 1994): 185-218.
In the following essay, Stern probes Poe's use and subversion of melodramatic conventions in the story “William Wilson.”
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