TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Lara Langer
TI  - The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture
T2  - Material Texts
SN  - 9780812205190
AV  - PS208 -- .C64 2012eb 
U1  - 810.9/003 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - American literature-1783-1850-History and criticism
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
KW  - Fraud in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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