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Cultural secrets as narrative form : storytelling in nineteenth-century America
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- Creator
- Margaret Reid
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xxxii, 259 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814290385, 0814273378, 0814209475, 0814290388, 0814251188, 9780814209479, 9780814251188
- OCLC
- ocm53356453
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Spy.
- Wister, Owen, 1860-1938. Virginian.
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Storytelling -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
- Culture in literature.