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![Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art by Philipp Schweighauser](https://assets.thestorygraph.com/assets/placeholder-cover-a3ae92250eb3301e32dc3eabf8d50576c2f047dda89f6ee7cfa9a859cb1fd746.jpg)
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Philipp Schweighauser
264 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780813939032
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 02 September 2016
Description
The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shre...
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![Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art by Philipp Schweighauser](https://assets.thestorygraph.com/assets/placeholder-cover-a3ae92250eb3301e32dc3eabf8d50576c2f047dda89f6ee7cfa9a859cb1fd746.jpg)
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Philipp Schweighauser
264 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780813939032
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 02 September 2016
Description
The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shre...