Knave, Fool, and Genius: The Confidence Man As He Appears in Nineteenth Century American Fiction
Rare and modern books
Kuhlmann, Susan
University of North Carolina Press First Edition, 1973,
Knave, Fool, and Genius: The Confidence Man As He Appears in Nineteenth Century American Fiction
Rare and modern books
Kuhlmann, Susan
University of North Carolina Press First Edition, 1973,
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- Author
- Kuhlmann, Susan
- Publishers
- University of North Carolina Press First Edition, 1973
- Keyword
- Americana
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
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- State of preservation
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
8vo, pp. 142. hardcover, ex library stamps and stickers, ow. unread, as new. 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
