02774nam 2200601 a 450 991081501310332120240516112845.01-58729-893-7(CKB)2670000000015896(EBL)843274(OCoLC)646846744(SSID)ssj0000343202(PQKBManifestationID)11280693(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343202(PQKBWorkID)10290186(PQKB)11329071(MiAaPQ)EBC843274(MdBmJHUP)muse9000(Au-PeEL)EBL843274(CaPaEBR)ebr10343467(EXLCZ)99267000000001589620090211d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStandards of value[electronic resource] money, race, and literature in America /by Michael Germana1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20091 online resource (204 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-818-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-184) and index.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.In Standards of Value, Michael Germana reveals how tectonic shifts in U.S. monetary policy-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 and tAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismMoney in literatureRace in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Money in literature.Race in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.813/.009/355Germana Michael1971-1625852MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815013103321Standards of value3961570UNINA