Date of Award
1-1-2012
Language
English
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School/Department
Department of English
Content Description
1 online resource (iii, 27 pages) : PDF file
Dissertation/Thesis Chair
Branka Arsic
Committee Members
Helen R Elam
Keywords
Confinement, Foucault, Madness, Poe, Mental illness in literature, Imprisonment in literature
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Philosophy
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the relationship of Michel Foucault's concepts of madness and confinement through three Gothic stories by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Imp of the Perverse", "Hop Frog", and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether". It seeks to recognize the way Poe lures the reader into the unconscious mind of the madman, and how that madness is decisively endured. Also, it investigates how these Gothic texts negotiate the physical and incorporeal boundaries of confinement created by, and established for, the mad.
Recommended Citation
Elacqua, Carolyn Leigh, "The disbanding of the self in Poe's gothic stories through Foucault's concepts of madness and confinement" (2012). Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024). 622.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/622