The cryptographic imagination
Subtitle: secret writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet
By: Shawn James Rosenheim.
Series: Parallax; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge -- Cryptography; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Influence; Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism; American literature -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography; Cryptography in literature; Internet; Ciphers in literature; Cold war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-251) ans index.