The Fabrication of American Literature : : Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture / / Lara Langer Cohen.
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, land bu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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