The fabrication of American literature : fraudulence and antebellum print culture /

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"Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Lara Langer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Material texts.
Temas:
1783-1850
Fraud in literature.
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
Littérature américaine > 1783-1850 > Histoire et critique.
Mensonge dans la littérature.
Fraude dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Fraud in literature
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. American Literary Fraudulence
  • Chapter 1. ''One Vast Perambulating Humbug'': Literary Nationalism and the Rise of the Puffing System
  • Chapter 2. Backwoods and Blackface: The Strange Careers of Davy Crockett and Jim Crow
  • Chapter 3. ''Slavery Never Can Be Represented'': James Williams and the Racial Politics of Imposture
  • Chapter 4. Mediums of Exchange: Fanny Fern's Unoriginality
  • Conclusion. The Confidence Man on a Large Scale
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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