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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, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles, and quack medicine. Excavating a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song sheets, and early literary criticism, and revisiting such familiar figures as Edgar Allan Poe, Davy Crockett, Fanny Fern, and Herman Melville, Lara Langer Cohen uncovers the controversies over literary fraudulence that plagued these years and uses them to offer an ambitious rethinking of the antebellum print explosion. She traces the checkered fortunes of American literature from the rise of literary nationalism, which was beset by accusations of puffery, to the conversion of fraudulence from a national dilemma into a sorting mechanism that produced new racial, regional, and gender identities. Yet she also shows that even as fraudulence became a sign of marginality, some authors managed to turn their dubious reputations to account, making a virtue of their counterfeit status. This forgotten history, Cohen argues, presents a dramatically altered picture of American literature's role in antebellum culture, one in which its authority is far from assured, and its failures matter as much as its achievements.
Fraud in literature --- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature --- American literature --- History and criticism --- E-books
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English literature --- American literature --- Trust in literature. --- Fraud in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Trust (Psychology) in literature --- Fraud in literature --- Trust in literature --- History and criticism
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Examining the importance of trust as an influence on a wide range of European and American modernists - including James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, H.D., Ford Madox Ford, Samuel Beckett, Ralph Ellison and Wallace Stevens - this collection shows that the concept underwent a violent set of transformations at the turn of the twentieth century. The contributors take up a diverse set of topics related to reception, the institutions of modernism, history of authorship, representation, authenticity, genre and politics.
English literature --- American literature --- Trust in literature. --- Fraud in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Trust (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism.
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Fraud --- Fraud in popular culture. --- Capitalism in literature. --- Swindlers and swindling in literature. --- Home economics in literature. --- Popular literature --- English literature --- Fraud in literature. --- History --- History and criticism.
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Fraud --- Fraud in popular culture. --- Capitalism in literature. --- Swindlers and swindling in literature. --- Home economics in literature. --- Popular literature --- English literature --- Fraud in literature. --- History --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.
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