The Monetary Imagination Of Edgar Allan Poe
DOWNLOAD
Download The Monetary Imagination Of Edgar Allan Poe PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Monetary Imagination Of Edgar Allan Poe book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Monetary Imagination Of Edgar Allan Poe
DOWNLOAD
Author : Heinz Tschachler
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-06-04
The Monetary Imagination Of Edgar Allan Poe written by Heinz Tschachler and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 sketches. Wielding his "power of regulation," Lincoln came to save the Union not just militarily but also economically. Under him, the United States government finally provided the kind of "sound and uniform currency" that Poe in his writings could only name and rehearse.
The Monetary Imagination Of Edgar Allan Poe
DOWNLOAD
Author : Heinz Tschachler
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-06-05
The Monetary Imagination Of Edgar Allan Poe written by Heinz Tschachler and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 sketches. Wielding his "power of regulation," Lincoln came to save the Union not just militarily but also economically. Under him, the United States government finally provided the kind of "sound and uniform currency" that Poe in his writings could only name and rehearse.
Edgar Allan Poe And His Nineteenth Century American Counterparts
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Cullen Gruesser
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-01-24
Edgar Allan Poe And His Nineteenth Century American Counterparts written by John Cullen Gruesser and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner of the 2019 Patrick F. Quinn Award for the best book on Poe (awarded by the Poe Studies Association) Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts addresses Poe's connections with, critical assessments of, borrowings from, and effect on his literary peers. It situates Poe within his own time and place, paying particular attention to his interactions with, and impact on, figures such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Harriet Jacobs, and Pauline Hopkins. John Cullen Gruesser rebuts myths that continue to cling to Poe, demonstrates Poe's ability to transform themes he encountered in the works of his literary contemporaries into great literature, and establishes the profound influence of Poe's invention of detective fiction on nineteenth-century American writers.
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
DOWNLOAD
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination written by Edgar Allan Poe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with categories.
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
DOWNLOAD
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1993
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination written by Edgar Allan Poe and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
A classic collection of short stories.
Literature Incorporated
DOWNLOAD
Author : John O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016
Literature Incorporated written by John O'Brien and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Business & Economics categories.
Introduction: the corporation as metaphor -- John Locke, desire, and the incorporation of money -- Wonderful event: the South Sea bubble and the crisis of property -- Insurance and the problem of sentimental representation -- "Bodies of men": abolitionist writing and the question of interest -- Held in reserve: banks, serial crises, and the ekphrastic turn -- Coda: the entrepreneur as corporate hero
A Cultural History Of Money In The Age Of Empire
DOWNLOAD
Author : Federico Neiburg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-11
A Cultural History Of Money In The Age Of Empire written by Federico Neiburg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-11 with History categories.
The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new metropolises; new technologies and infrastructures emerged for saving and circulating money and for standardizing coinage; and paper currencies were printed, founded purely on trust without any intrinsic metallic value. But the monetary landscape was ambivalent so that the forces unifying monetary practice (imperial and national currencies, global monetary standards such as the gold standard) coexisted with the proliferation of local currencies. Money became a central issue in politics, the arts, and sciences - and the modern discipline of economics was born, with its claim to a monopoly on knowing and governing money. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.
Us American Expressions Of Utopian And Dystopian Visions
DOWNLOAD
Author : Saskia Fürst
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2017
Us American Expressions Of Utopian And Dystopian Visions written by Saskia Fürst and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection takes stock of current discourses in American studies on the political valence of American utopias, be they as religious diasporas or as socialist experiments, fantastic or realist, successful or failed. The included essays take into account the spatiality of utopias (especially in their visionary scope), analyze currents in literary utopias, and look at dystopian visions in literature. This volume strives to keep alive the long tradition of writers, artists, and scholars who warned against imminent disasters and envisioned ways to counter such ruinous bearings. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 17) [Subject: Sociology, Literary Studies]
Money And Materiality In The Golden Age Of Graphic Satire
DOWNLOAD
Author : Amanda Lahikainen
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-12
Money And Materiality In The Golden Age Of Graphic Satire written by Amanda Lahikainen and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-12 with Art categories.
Value & the inflation of Georgian graphic satire -- Crisis -- Subjectivity & trust -- Imitation & immateriality -- Materiality -- Epilogue: Deflation -- Appendix: Beyond Britain.
George Washington On Coins And Currency
DOWNLOAD
Author : Heinz Tschachler
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-07-27
George Washington On Coins And Currency written by Heinz Tschachler and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with History categories.
George Washington is the most popular subject on coins, medals, tokens, paper money and postage stamps in America. Attempts to eliminate one-dollar bills from circulation, replacing them with coins, have been unsuccessful. Americans' reluctance to part with their "Georges" are beyond rational considerations but tap into deep-felt emotions. To discard one-dollar bills means discarding the metaphorical Father of His Country. Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury, said that monetary tokens were "vehicles of useful impressions." This numismatic history of George Washington traces the persistence of his image on American currency. These images are mostly from the late 18th-century. This book also offers a close look at the pictorial tradition in which these images are rooted.