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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Tresch, John, 1972-     Subjects     Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.     Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge and learning.     Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.     Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tresch, John, 1972-       by title:      The reason for the d...       by call number:      921 P743t     Search the Web     Tresch, John, 1972-     Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.     Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge and learning.     Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.     Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.       MARC Display

The reason for the darkness of the night : Edgar Allan Poe and the forging of American science / John Tresch. by Tresch, John, 1972- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Call #: 921 P743t Subjects Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.   Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge and learning.   Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.   Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780374247850 (hc.) Alternate title:  Edgar Allan Poe and the forging of American science Edition:  1st ed. Description:  434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-409) and index. Summary:  "A biography of Edgar Allan Poe with an emphasis on his engagement with the scientists and scientific discoveries of his era."--From publisher. "In 'The Reason for the Darkness of the Night,' John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, 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. Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science, and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era's scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. 'The Reason for the Darkness of the Night' is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination, and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own."--From publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 921 P743t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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