The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe: Banking, Currency and Politics in the Writings
Author:   Heinz Tschachler
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9780786475834


Pages:   230
Publication Date:   05 June 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Heinz Tschachler
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780786475834


ISBN 10:   0786475838
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   05 June 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments  ix Preface  1 Prologue: “Y’all Don’t Know; But Poe Know”  7 1. Poe, the Critics and the Question of America’s Money  21 2. Captain Kidd’s Treasure and the Paper System: Questions of Trust  49 3. Capital Stories: Poe, the Banks and Politics  76 4. Poe’s Nightmares: Gold, Counterfeits and Literary Politics  109 5. Fables of Circulation: Poe, Civic Virtue and the “American System”  136 Epilogue: The National Currency and Methods in Madness  165 Chapter Notes  171 Bibliographic Essay  202 Index  211

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"""provides a learned, impassioned, and, within the wider scholarship on Poe's work, unorthodox, refreshing and inspiring study of a nineteenth-century U.S.-American author in his times""--Amerikastudien/American Studies."


provides a learned, impassioned, and, within the wider scholarship on Poe's work, unorthodox, refreshing and inspiring study of a nineteenth-century U.S.-American author in his times --Amerikastudien/American Studies.


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Heinz Tschachler is a former professor of English and American studies at Alpen-Adria-University in Klagenfurt, Austria. He is the author of numerous books.

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