... writings about the limits of reason, particularly his tales of ratiocination—“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (1842–43), and “The Purloined Letter” (1844). Exploring emergent sciences of chance through his polymath investigator Dupin, Poe's use of probability theory...

.... Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 From C. August Dupin’s needling repartee with the Parisian police in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” to Sherlock Holmes’s insinuating banter with Lestrade, Hercule Poirot’s passive-aggressive one-upmanship with Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland...

... Dupin, observes that ‘‘not the least usual error in investigations such as this is the limiting of inquiry to the immediate, with total disregard of collateral or surrounding events The surrounding events to which Walsh attends...

...- siderations His strategy for sidestepping this theoretical trap is to scrutinize intensely the letters and reviews written by Poe and his colleagues. Not un- like Poe’s fastidious detective Dupin, Whalen combs the historical record...

... “confront the limitations and half-truths of medicolegal language surrounding abortion,” Medoro begins by reading Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin stories in context of the gradual criminalization of abortion in the 1820s. Then, the monograph turns to how Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of Seven...

... fiction—and what she aptly characterizes as Dupin’s “uncommon sense” (96)—as “continuous” with an “Enlightenment model of identity” (103). In a similar manner, the conclusion briefly outlines some of the continuities between the American and British gothic. Gothic Subjects benefits from these qualifying...

...- like Poe’s fastidious detective Dupin, Whalen combs the historical record. What he finds is the central and determining role of the political economy in 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 180 of238 shaping Poe’s authorship. Flatly rejecting deconstructionist...

... The Wings of the Dove and Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (1860), how Edgar Allan Poe’s Auguste Dupin may have influenced James’s fiction, and James’s relation to Portugal. From James’s intense interest in Robert Browning to his use of Marian and Henry Adams as characters, this collection savors every...

... inhabits the generic home built by Edgar Allan Poe in his C. Auguste Dupin stories from the 1840s. Poe s detective ction, Jon Thompson (1993: 44) argues, articulates a desire for a complete form of knowledge, a desire that ultimately becomes a structural element of the genre. The Secret Service...

... to his fellow citizens not to have any secrets. This appearance, like Natty’s and Oliver’s frequent public intimations that they do, in fact, harbor secrets, is Temple’s means of manipulating the world around him, not by warding off the public gaze, but rather, like Dupin in Edgar Allan...