The Cryptographic Imagination Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet

• Main Author: Rosenheim, Shawn James (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
• Subjects: Literary theory
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Originally published in 1996. In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, and technology. Rosenheim argues that Poe's cryptographic writing-his essays on cryptography and the...