The confidence game in American literature /

Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Nathanael West as creators of a fictive experience centered in deceptive or problematic transactions of confidence. The model of a confidence game, suggested by the writers�...

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Main Author: Wadlington, Warwick, 1938- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; London, England : Princeton University Press, 1975.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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