The Unvarnished Truth
Ann Fabian · 2002
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About the book
"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 during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority, truth-telling, and the nature of print media as the country was shifting to a market economy. This book describes the controversies surrounding these little-read tales and returns them to the social worlds where they were produced."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 268
- ISBN
- 9780520232013
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