The Horror of Taking a Picture in Poe's “Tell-Tale Heart”

SE Sweeney - The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 2017 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Abstract In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe's narrator wields an instrument that enhances his
vision, adjusts its aperture, calculates the length of exposure, and focuses a single ray of …

Poe, the Portrait, and the Daguerreotype: Poe's Living Dead and the Visual Arts

N Miyazawa - Poe Studies, 2017 - muse.jhu.edu
This essay contributes to existing scholarly research on Poe's relationship with photography
by focusing on his metaphorical references to daguerreotypy. While Poe's essays on this art …