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100	1		_aTresch, John, _d1972- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe reason for the darkness of the night : _bEdgar Allan Poe and the forging of American science / _cJohn Tresch.
246	1	0	_aEdgar Allan Poe and the forging of American science
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a434 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart 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.
520			_a"A biography of Edgar Allan Poe with an emphasis on his engagement with the scientists and scientific discoveries of his era"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_aTresch 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
600	1	0	_aPoe, Edgar Allan, _d1809-1849. _94467
600	1	0	_aPoe, Edgar Allan, _d1809-1849 _xKnowledge and learning.
650		0	_aScience _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _9329036
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y19th century _vBiography. _959778
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