Cultural secrets as narrative form: storytelling in nineteenth-century America

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Subjects (LCSH):
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticismHistorical fiction, American -- History and criticism
Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Storytelling -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Spy
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938. Virginian
Culture in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Issue Date:
2004Metadata
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The Ohio State University PressDescription:
(print) xxxii, 259 p. ; 23 cm
Contents:
Imagining cultural origins in James Fenimore Cooper's The spy -- History's revolutions in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Traces of a vanished world" in Owen Wister's The Virginian -- Conclusion : the storyteller's legacy from Quentin Compson to Oedipa Maas
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Item embargoed for five years
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BookISBN:
9780814209479 (print)0814209475 (print)
0814251188 (print)
Other Identifiers:
OCLC #53356453 (print)LCCN 2003023639 (print)
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