The Cryptographic Imagination : Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet / / Shawn James Rosenheim.

• VerfasserIn: Rosenheim, Shawn,
• Language: English
• Series: Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) :); illustrations.
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1997

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...