The Black Cat

The Black Cat Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Campbell, Killis. "Contemporary Opinion of Poe." PMLA 36, no. 2 (1921): 142-66.

  • Van Scoyoc, Stephen L. "Le Grand Mort: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"." CEA Critic 63, no. 2 (2001): 26-33.

  • STARK, JOSEPH. "Motive and Meaning: The Mystery of the Will in Poe's "The Black Cat"." The Mississippi Quarterly 57, no. 2 (2004): 255-64.

  • KI, MAGDALEN WING-CHI. "Diabolical Evil and "The Black Cat"." The Mississippi Quarterly 62, no. 4 (2009): 569-89.

  • NADAL, MARITA. "Variations on the Grotesque: From Poe's "The Black Cat" to Oates's "The White Cat"." The Mississippi Quarterly 57, no. 3 (2004): 455-72.

  • MATHESON, T. J. "Poe's "The Black Cat" as a Critique of Temperance Literature." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 19, no. 3 (1986): 69-81.

  • Gargano, James W. ""THE BLACK CAT": PERVERSENESS RECONSIDERED." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 2, no. 2 (1960): 172-78.

  • Ljungquist, Kent. "USES OF THE DAEMON IN SELECTED WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE." Interpretations 12, no. 1 (1980): 31-39.

  • Gooder, R. D. "Edgar Allan Poe: The Meaning of Style." The Cambridge Quarterly 16, no. 2 (1987): 110-23.

  • McElroy, John Harmon. "The Kindred Artist; Or, the Case of the Black Cat." Studies in American Humor 3, no. 2 (1976): 103-17.

  • Piacentino, Ed. 1998. “Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ as Psychobiography: Some Reflections on the Narratological Dynamics.” Studies in Short Fiction 35 (2): 153. Login required; http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=6297585&site=ehost-live.

  • Moreland, Clark T., and Karime Rodriguez. "“Never Bet the Devil Your Head”: Fuseli's The Nightmare and Collapsing Masculinity in Poe's “The Black Cat”." The Edgar Allan Poe Review 16, no. 2 (2015): 204-20.

  • Edgar Allen Poe. "The Black Cat." Poe Stories. 1845. 3/2/19. <https://poestories.com/read/blackcat>.
  • "Why is a Black cat bad luck?." American Folklore. 3/5/19. <http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2014/03/why_is_a_black_cat_bad_luck.html>.
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