Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Request Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Tresch, John, 1972- author.

Title The reason for the darkness of the night : Edgar Allan Poe and the forging of American science / John Tresch.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2021

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  813.3 POE    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B POE, EDGAR ALLAN    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B POE    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B POE E.    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - New Materials  B POE E.    DUE 12-28-21 Billed
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO POE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 POE, EDG    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  813.3 POE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  B POE EDGAR T    DUE 11-15-21 Billed
Edition First edition.
Description 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-409) and index.
Contents Part I: From Allan to Poe -- The Young Astronomer -- In Jefferson's Experiment -- Exile, Artificer, Cadet -- Part II: Setting Sail -- A Baltimore Apprenticeship -- Richmond: The Palpable Obscure -- Delirious Design -- Part III: Philadelphia -- The Athens of America -- Methods Grotesque and Arabesque -- Dizzy Heights -- The Tide Turns -- The March of Science and Quacks -- Part IV: New York City -- The Market for Novelty -- A Man of Wonders -- The Imp of the Perverse -- Part V: To the Plutonian Shore -- A Spectacle for Angels -- The Plots of God -- Falling Star -- Conclusion: From a Lighthouse.
Summary "A biography of Edgar Allan Poe with an emphasis on his engagement with the scientists and scientific discoveries of his era"-- Provided by publisher.
Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. In showing that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science, Tresch shows that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge and learning.
Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. (OCoLC)fst00032674
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Learning and scholarship. (OCoLC)fst00994857
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9780374247850 (hardcover)
0374247854 (hardcover)
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español