SOURCE: "The Journey from Reason to Madness: Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher,'" Essays in Arts and Sciences, Vol. XIV, May, 1985, pp. 23-31.
In the following essay, Engel argues that in "The Fall of the House of Usher, " Edgar Allan Poe uses language and imagery relating to enclosure as a means of tracing the journey of the narrator from reason to insanity.
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