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Author

Cohen, Lara Langer.

Title The fabrication of American literature : fraudulence and antebellum print culture / Lara Langer Cohen.

Imprint

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	810.9003 C66f 2012	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Material texts
	Material texts.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: American literary fraudulence -- "One vast perambulating humbug" : literary nationalism and the rise of the puffing system -- Backwoods and blackface : the strange careers of Davy Crockett and Jim Crow -- "Slavery never can be represented" : James Williams and the racial politics of imposture -- Mediums of exchange : Fanny Fern's unoriginality -- Conclusion: The confidence man on a large scale.
Subject	American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.
	Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
	Fraud in literature.
ISBN	9780812243697 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	0812243692 (hardcover : alk. paper)