The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe: Banking, Currency and Politics in the Writings by Heinz Tschachler
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0786475838 | 230 pages | PDF | 10,5 MB
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."