The fabrication of American literature fraudulence and antebellum print culture /
"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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Main Author: | Cohen, Lara Langer |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2012.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Material texts.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
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