The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture by Lara Langer Cohen
The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

Lara Langer Cohen

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The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

Lara Langer Cohen

256 pages digital 2011

2 editions

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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, a...

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