Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Ellison is Professor of English at Illinois State University, where she directs the Cipher Series Faculty Lectures in Intelligence and Cryptography and teaches courses in literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her first book, Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, was published in 2006. Klappentext This book demonstrates that seventeenth-century cryptography manuals show clear beginning of the capitalization of information. It closely reads five specific primary texts that have been ignored in cryptography scholarship and in early modern literary, scientific, and historical studies. Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates that seventeenth-century cryptography manuals show clear beginning of the capitalization of information. It closely reads five specific primary texts that have been ignored in cryptography scholarship and in early modern literary! scientific! and historical studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Crises of expression in seventeenth-century cryptography manuals 1. The structures of seventeenth-century cryptography manuals 2. Textual precedents and seventeenth-century cryptography manuals 3. Occult communication, the new sciences, and cryptography 4. Cryptography and universal language schemes 5. Trade security and intelligence as capital 6. Materializing intelligence 7. Typography and multimodality in cryptography manuals 8. Conclusion: Logistikon: the fate of cryptography

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• Autori: Katherine Ellison
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.01.2019
• EAN: 9780367139339
• ISBN: 978-0-367-13933-9
• Pagine: 218
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; European History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, History and Archaeology, Literature: history and criticism