The unvarnished truth : personal narratives in nineteenth-century America / Ann Fabian.

The unvarnished truth : personal narratives in nineteenth-century America /

"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 duri...

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Main Author: Fabian, Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Autobiography.
Poor > United States > Biography.
Autobiographies as Topic.
autobiography (genre)
United States > History > 19th century > Biography.
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