Research Catalog

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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Description

x, 219 pages; 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"--

Subject

• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 > Economics
• Money in literature
• Gold in literature
• Finance in literature
• Money > Political aspects > United States
• Currency question > United States
• Banks and banking > Social aspects > United states

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780786475834 (softcover : acid free paper)
• 0786475838 (softcover : acid free paper)

LCCN

^^2013016862

OCLC

• 829764327
• SCSB-11507201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library