What is the historical and literary context of the author of the oval portrait

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Historical and literary context - Edgar Allan Poe a monumental person in his times invented the detective story and perfected horror and mystery, and a classic author of literature. His short story the Oval portrait shows an artist with an obsession of his painting and his wife the model of this portrait, so absorbed in the creation the artist fails to notice the life draining from his wife as his painting becomes more lifelike, until the last stroke of his brush he notices his dead bride. This story published in April of 1812, displays the mystery and creative talent of the famous Poe.

Historical - The Oval Portrait is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842. The tale begins with an injured narrator (the story offers no further explanation of his or her impairment) seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion in the Apennines. The narrator spends his or her time admiring the paintings that decorate the strangely shaped room and perusing a volume, found upon a pillow, that describes them. This is the historical context of the author

Literary Context - "The Oval Portrait" is a short story with Gothic overtones. It is a revision of an earlier Poe story, "Life in Death," published in Graham's Magazine in April 1842. Poe improved the story and published the new version, "The Oval Portrait," for the first time in the April 26, 1845, issue of The Broadway Journal.