Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals
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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.
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.