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The Fabrication of American Literature : Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Material TextsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205190
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Fabrication of American LiteratureDDC classification:
  • 810.9/003
LOC classification:
  • PS208 -- .C64 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of 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.
Summary: Drawing on a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song-sheets, and early literary criticism, this book uncovers the controversies over literary fraudulence that plagued the antebellum period and shows how they at once made and unmade American literature.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of 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.

Drawing on a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song-sheets, and early literary criticism, this book uncovers the controversies over literary fraudulence that plagued the antebellum period and shows how they at once made and unmade American literature.

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