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Author Germana, Michael, 1971-

Title Standards of value : money, race, and literature in America / by Michael Germana.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2009]
©2009

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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.
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Money in literature.
Money in literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Germana, Michael, 1971- Standards of value. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009005977
ISBN 9781587298936 (electronic book)
1587298937 (electronic book)
9781587298189 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
158729818X (hardback ; alkaline paper)