University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst History Department Faculty Publication Series History January 2003 Collection, conviction, and contemplation: or, Picturing coins in early modern books, ca. 1550-1700 Brian W. Ogilvie University of Massachusetts - Amherst,
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[email protected]. Collection, conviction, and contemplation; or, Picturing coins in early modern books, ca. 1550-1700 Brian W. Ogilvie Department of History University of Massachusetts Amherst
[email protected] DRAFT of work in progress. Copyright © 2003 Brian W. Ogilvie. All rights reserved. Do not cite or quote without the author’s express permission. As this is very much a work in progress, the notes are incomplete. If you would like more specific references on any point, please ask! Preliminary reflections Of the many stories in Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom!, one, in particular, escapes all but the most meticulous reader. The story of Sutpen’s Hundred and Yoknapatawpha County is narrated by the young Quentin Compson, on a cold New England night in 1910, to Compson’s roommate at Harvard College.