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ISBN/UID: 9780812243697
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 24 November 2011
Description
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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245 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812243697
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 24 November 2011
Description
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...