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Kuhlmann, Susan

Knave, Fool, and Genius: The Confidence Man As He Appears in Nineteenth Century American Fiction

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
No
State of preservation
Fair
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

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