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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. He contends that Poe gave the full force of his censure to the acrimonious debates about America''s money, Andrew Jackson''s bank war, the panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression, and the nation''s inability to furnish a sound and uniform currency. Poe''s attitude is overt in his early satires, more subdued in The Gold-Bug, and almost an undercurrent in writings that enter into and historicize the discovery of gold in California.

In Poe''s writings much is concealed, though his art also reveals while it conceals, in this instance, a deep felt desire for an authority that would guarantee a measure of permanence and continuity to the nation'' s currency. That kind of currency was finally furnished by Abraham Lincoln (both were born in 1809; Poe died in 1849), at one time a dedicated reader of Poe''s tales and sketc

The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe

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      Publisher: McFarland & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/5/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786475834, 978-0786475834
      ISBN10: 0786475838

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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. He contends that Poe gave the full force of his censure to the acrimonious debates about America''s money, Andrew Jackson''s bank war, the panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression, and the nation''s inability to furnish a sound and uniform currency. Poe''s attitude is overt in his early satires, more subdued in The Gold-Bug, and almost an undercurrent in writings that enter into and historicize the discovery of gold in California.

      In Poe''s writings much is concealed, though his art also reveals while it conceals, in this instance, a deep felt desire for an authority that would guarantee a measure of permanence and continuity to the nation'' s currency. That kind of currency was finally furnished by Abraham Lincoln (both were born in 1809; Poe died in 1849), at one time a dedicated reader of Poe''s tales and sketc

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