The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writings From Edgar Allen Poe to the Internet (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 6, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801853326
Subjects: Linguistic semiotics; Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Philosophy of language; Poe, Edgar Allan,; History and criticism; Cryptography; United States; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Knowledge; American - General; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; American literature; 1809-1849; Detective and mystery stories,; Detective and mystery stories, American; Modernism (Literature)
First sentence: The origin of this book might be described as an attempt to answer a presumably straightforward question: what is the source of the worldwide popularity of detective fiction?