Description |
1 online resource (x, 190 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-184) and index. |
Contents |
Jacksonian abolitionism: money, minstrelsy, and "Uncle Tom's cabin" -- Real change: George Washington Cable's "The grandissimes" and the crime of '73 -- The gold standard of the passing novel: exploring the limits of strategic essentialism -- Black is-- an' Black ain't: "Invisible man" and the fiat of race. |
Summary |
In Standards of Value, Michael Germana reveals how tectonic shifts in U.S. monetary policy & mdash;from the Coinage Act of 1834 to the abolition of the domestic gold standard in 1933-34,correspond to strategic changes by American writers who renegotiated the value of racial difference. Populating the pages of this bold and innovative study are authors as varied as Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Washington Cable, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Ralph Ellison, all of whom drew analogies between the form Americans thought the nation's money should take. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Money in literature.
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Money in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Germana, Michael, 1971- Standards of value. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009005977 |
ISBN |
9781587298936 (electronic book) |
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1587298937 (electronic book) |
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9781587298189 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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158729818X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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