In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote," Science does not know its debt to imagination,"
words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and …

“[CT Suite] is a nuanced analysis of the cultural potency of diagnostic imaging at a particular
moment in time (the mid 1990s), rich in contextual detail and superbly attuned to the …

Unsettled by doubt, we reach for matter; we clutch a tool, pound a table, drive a spike into
the earth. We think our grip on something solid will catapult us past uncertainty, deception …

After sitting for his first daguerreotype, Edgar Allan Poe was extremely disappointed with the
resulting image, which looks nothing like the photographs of him we are accustomed to …

爱伦· 坡小说中存在着诸多易为忽略的“眼睛” 元素, 它们不仅是故事层面上的情节素材,
也可映射作品在话语层面上的叙述策略, 甚或在元语言层面上指导读者(批评者) …

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 …

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 …

Roderick Usher is afflicted with what Poe terms “a morbid acuteness” of his senses. This
article examines Poe's knowledge of late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century medical …

Abstract Edgar Allan Poe's literary successes in the late 1830's and early 1840's coincided
with the invention and remarkable popularity of the daguerreotype. In this study I examine …

This dissertation considers how key works of American writing took inspiration from scientific
concepts to rethink the type of work literature could do. Telescopes, microscopes, and other …