Standards of value money, race, and literature in America / [electronic resource] :
by Michael Germana.
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2009.
- x, 190 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.