Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851)

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Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851)

In detective fiction, the city has often been represented as an arena of signs and secrets, what Laura Marcus has called ‘urban hieroglyphics’. Through the analysis of two literary works, this essay discusses how tattoos and patterning within detective fiction can be understood as direct responses...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jordan, Spencer
Other Authors:	Cox, K.
Format:	Book Section
Published:	Manchester University Press 2017
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36021/

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