Standards of value
Subtitle: money, race, and literature in America
By: by Michael Germana.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781587298189
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Money in literature; Race in literature; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jacksonian abolitionism: money, minstrelsy, and Uncle Tom's cabin; title: Real change: George Washington Cable's The grandissimes and the crime of '73; title: The gold standard of the passing novel: exploring the limits of strategic essentialism; title: "'Black is ... an' Black ain't'": invisible man and the fiat of "race".