Why does Edgar Allan Poe leave off specific years such as 18- rather than 1832 and names Mr S- rather than Mr Smith?

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I suppose it's because he simply didn't want a specific year or a specific name, so as to not limit the reader's imagination with such confining details. You could say that he wanted the reader to have a sense of knowing that this story could be taking place at anytime, to more or less anyone.

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It's a fictional device. I think he was trying to create the illusion that he was writing factual narratives. He is writing them almost like case studies in which the names are changed or omitted to protect the privacy of the individuals concerned. By seeming to conceal the identity of the subject characters and being evasive about the actual date of the events, he is suggesting that if you knew those particulars you might be able to figure out where, when, and to whom these stories actually happened.

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