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E337.5 .F33 2000eb
E337
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5
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F33
2000eb
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0520928032 (electronic bk.)
0585274134 (electronic bk.)
9780520928039 (electronic bk.)
9780585274133 (electronic bk.)
0520218620 (alk. paper)
9780520218628
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The unvarnished truth
[Book]
personal narratives in nineteenth-century America /
Ann Fabian
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2000
1 online resource (xiii, 255 p.) :
ill
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-246) and index
The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority, truth-telling, and the nature of print media as the country was shifting to a market economy. This well-crafted book describes the fascinating contro
Unvarnished truth.
0520218620
Autobiography
Electronic books.
Poor-- United States, Biography
History
United States-- History-- 19th century, Biography
United States, History, 19th century, Biography
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E337
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5
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F33
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Fabian, Ann
Ohio Library and Information Network
20120731015048.0
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