Dayan, Joan

Dayan, Joan. Fables of Mind An Inquiry into Poe s Fiction. New York Oxford University Press, 1987. 

Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation (Leipzig Tauchnitz, 1842), pp. 281-297. Poe met Dickens in Philadelphia in 1842 during his tour of the United States. Joan Dayan, Poe, Persons, and Property, American Literary History ii (Fall 1999) 406-407, argues that The Pit and the Pendulum and The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether are based on Dickens description of the Eastern Penitentiary. 

Joan Dayan, Amorous Bondage Poe, Ladies, Slaves, in The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Shawn Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), p. 192-... 

Poe s feminine ideal thus is merely a placeholder, the less obtrusive the better, for some need in the narrator himself. As Joan Dayan remarks Poe s tales about women are about the men who narrate the unspeakable remembrance. Just as Poe s female characters have similarities in demeanor, his... 

Joan Dayan, Amorous Bondage Poe, Ladies, and Slaves, American Literature 66 (1994) 244. 

Joan Dayan, Poe s Women A Feminist Poe Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism 26 (June-December 1993) 9. 

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