Fabrication of american literature, the: fraudulence and antebellum print culture
Auteur :
Cohen, Lara Langer
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812243697
Date de publication :
24 nov. 2011
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.