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The unvarnished truth : personal narratives in nineteenth-century America /
"The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity duri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority, truth-telling, and the nature of print media as the country was shifting to a market economy. This book describes the controversies surrounding these little-read tales and returns them to the social worlds where they were produced."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520928039 0520928032 0585274134 9780585274133 1283303906 9781283303903 9786613303905 6613303909 |