Knave, fool, and genius : the confidence man as he appears in nineteenth century American fiction
(2018)
By:
Lohafer, Susan
Fiction
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781469650562 (electronic bk.) MWT12262617, 1469650568 (electronic bk.) 12262617
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The confidence man held a fascination for Melville, Hawthorne, Howells, Johnson J. Hooper, Bret Harte, and Mark Twain. In this study the writers are grouped in such a way as to emphasize certain large-scale cultural patterns of nineteenth-century America. Primary attention is given to the con man character himself and the ways in which he reflects the unique qualities and perceptions of a given writer. Originally published in 1973
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