The fabrication of American literature : fraudulence and antebellum print culture / by Cohen, Lara Langer

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The fabrication of American literature : fraudulence and antebellum print culture / by Cohen, Lara Langer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: American literary fraudulence -- "One vast perambulating humbug" : literary nationalism and the rise of the puffing system -- Backwoods and blackface : the strange careers of Davy Crockett and Jim Crow -- "Slavery never can be represented" : James Williams and the racial politics of imposture -- Mediums of exchange : Fanny Fern's unoriginality -- Conclusion: The confidence man on a large scale.…”