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BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Collections of Scholarly Notes

Hodgens, Richard M. Typescript notes graciously loaned to us. They deal with similarities between Eureka and a number of documents, especially the lectures of John Pringle Nichol.

Mabbott, Thomas Ollive (TOM). Mabbott Papers, University of Iowa, Iowa City. Preliminary notes that Mabbott had prepared with an eye to further volumes of his edition. The notes are in various forms, and often several stages exist for a single work. Many have been painstakingly typed, under Maureen Mabbott's supervision, we believe, sometimes from rough handwritten notes, sometimes from marginal jottings. Scholars using them should be aware that they are very preliminary; some are essentially notes by TOM to himself. The [[They]] should not be trusted for the wording of quotations. TOM seems often to have made notations from memory and in haste, planning to check for exact wording at a later stage of his work. But the notes, which are in the hands of librarians sympathetic to scholarship, are very useful and saved us many hours.

 

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Bryant, Jacob. A New System or an Analysis of Antient Mythology: Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity. London: Printed for T. Payne, 1774-76. There were additions of new material in later versions. We use the third edition, which is in six volumes: A New System; or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology. London: James Nunn, 1807.

Cantalupo, Barbara. “Eureka: Poe's ‘Novel Universe.’ ” In A Companion to Poe Studies. Edited by Eric W. Carlson, 323-44. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.

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Holman, Harriet R. “Hog, Bacon, Ram, and Other ‘Savans’ in Eureka: Notes toward Decoding Poe's Encyclopedic Satire.” Poe Newsletter 2 (Oct. 1969): 49-55.

——. “Splitting Poe's ‘Epicurean Atoms’: Further Speculation on the Literary Satire of Eureka.” Poe Studies 5 (Dec. 1972): 33-37.

Holt, Palmer C. “Poe and H. N. Coleridge's Greek Classic Poets: Pinikidia,”Politian,’ and ‘Morella’ Sources.” American Literature 34 (March 1962): 8-30.

Humboldt, Friederich Heinrich Alexander von. Kosmos. Stuttgart, 1845. Cosmos. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1845. A pirated translation. Poe had seen at least the first half of the first volume of this version (¶232n).

——. Cosmos. Translated by Elise C. Otte. London: H. G. Bohn, 1849.

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Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Exposition du systeme du monde. Paris: lmpr. du Cercle-Social, An IV de la Republique francaise [1796]. Translation. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1809.

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——. “Scholarly Strategy: The Poe Case.” American Quarterly 17 (Spring 1965): 13244.

Levine, Stuart, and Susan F. Levine. “History, Myth, Fable, and Satire: Poe's Use of Jacob Bryant.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 21 (4th Quarter 1975): 197-213.

——.. “ ‘How to’ Satire: Cervantes, Marryat, Poe.” Modern Language Studies 16 (Summer 1986): 15-26. [page 172:]

Maddison, Carol Hopkins. “Poe's Eureka.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 2 (1960): 350-67. Examines possible links of Eureka to Roger Boscovich, SJ., Theoria Philosophise Naturalis redacta, ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium (Vienna, 1758, republished in Venice, 1763), to Alexander Humbolt, and to William Whewell's Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (?; Maddison gives no dates).

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——. Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Edited by Burton R. Pollin. Vol. 1: The Imaginary Voyages: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / The Journal of Julius Rodman. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981.

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