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The monetary imagination of Edgar Allan Poe : banking, currency, and politics in the writings
- Title
- The monetary imagination of Edgar Allan Poe : banking, currency, and politics in the writings / Heinz Tschachler.
- Author
- Tschachler, Heinz.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 13-1376 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 219 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe's relation to the world of banking and money in antebellum America. His censure is overt in his early satires and almost an undercurrent in writings that enter into and historicize the discovery of gold in California"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Prologue : "y'all don't know; but Poe know" -- Poe, the critics, and the question of America's money -- Captain Kidd's treasure and the paper system: questions of trust -- Capital stories : Poe, the banks, and politics -- Poe's nightmares: gold, counterfeits, and literary politics -- Fables of circulation : Poe, civic virtue, and the "American system" -- Epilogue : the national currency and methods in madness.
- Call Number
- JFF 13-1376
- ISBN
- 9780786475834 (softcover : acid free paper)
- 0786475838 (softcover : acid free paper)
- 9781476605838 (electronic bk.) (canceled/invalid)
- 1476605831 (electronic bk.) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013016862
- OCLC
- 829764327
- Author
- Tschachler, Heinz.
- Title
- The monetary imagination of Edgar Allan Poe : banking, currency, and politics in the writings / Heinz Tschachler.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 13-1376