This article discusses Edgar Allan Poe’s “voice” in his sociopathic tales by comparing contemporary assessments of it to the recognition that the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky made in the 1860s. The article uses this comparison to explore how the voices of Poe’s sociopaths have been heard through these two distinct cultural contexts and the representative interpretations that these hearings have generated over time.
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