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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cohen, Lara Langer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
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.
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