A Big Read event, celebrating the Philadelphia Work of Edgar Allan Poe through October and November 2015
Poe scholar and author, and University of Pennsylvania Professor of History, Dr. John Tresch, will give our keynote lecture from his forthcoming book on Edgar Allan Poe, focusing on nineteenth-century science and technology. This talk will present Poe in his contextualized space of Philadelphia as well as illuminate the technological and scientific advances of his era.