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

Print Book, English, ©2004
Ohio State University Press, Columbus, ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxxii, 259 pages ; 24 cm
9780814209479, 9780814251188, 9780814290385, 0814209475, 0814251188, 0814290388
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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