04361nam 2200949Ia 450 991078000550332120230422042746.01-283-30390-697866133039050-585-27413-40-520-92803-210.1525/9780520928039(CKB)111057870453494(EBL)223618(OCoLC)45729382(SSID)ssj0000265605(PQKBManifestationID)11204472(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265605(PQKBWorkID)10299622(PQKB)11026493(MiAaPQ)EBC223618(MdBmJHUP)muse31016(DE-B1597)520476(DE-B1597)9780520928039(Au-PeEL)EBL223618(CaPaEBR)ebr10539246(CaONFJC)MIL330390(EXLCZ)9911105787045349419990120d2000 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe unvarnished truth[electronic resource] personal narratives in nineteenth-century America /Ann FabianBerkeley University of California Pressc20001 online resource (271 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-21862-0 0-520-23201-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-246) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --List of Illustrations --Preface --Introduction --CHAPTER ONE. Beggars --CHAPTER TWO. Convicts --CHAPTER THREE. Slaves --CHAPTER FOUR. Prisoners of War --EPILOGUE. Lovers, Farm Wives, and Tramps --Notes --IndexThe 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 well-crafted book describes the fascinating controversies surrounding these little-read tales and returns them to the social worlds where they were produced. Drawing on an enormous number of personal narratives-accounts of mostly poor, suffering, and often uneducated Americans-The Unvarnished Truth analyzes a long-ignored tradition in popular literature. Historians have treated the spread of literacy and the growth of print culture as a chapter in the democratization of refinement, but these tales suggest that this was not always the case. Producing stories that purported to be the plain, unvarnished truth, poor men and women edged their way onto the cultural stage, using storytelling strategies far older than those relying on a Renaissance sense of refinement and polish. This book introduces a unique collection of tales to explore the nature of truth, authenticity, and representation.AutobiographyPoorUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryBiography19th century.american culture.american history.authenticity.controversial.controversy.cultural history.cultural studies.cultural.education.hard times.hardship.literacy.popular literature.print culture.representation.sad story.sob story.social history.social issues.social studies.truth.uneducated.united states history.us history.Autobiography.Poor920.073Fabian Ann1485120MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780005503321The unvarnished truth3704090UNINA02406nas 2200481 n 450 99000904535040332120240229084426.01144-2158000904535FED01000904535(Aleph)000904535FED01000904535CNRP 0015142620161109a19899999km-y0itaa50------bafreFRauu--------Revue francaise de droit aerien et spatial1989-ParisPedoneTrimestrale0010009045342001Revue francaise de droit aérien : Doctrine, législation, jurisprudence, bibliographieRevue francaise de droit aerien et spatial347.79347.79/.8343.093347ITACNP20090723http://acnp.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/cnr/dc-p1.tcl?catno=947984&person=false&language=ITALIANO&libr=&libr_th=unina1Biblioteche che possiedono il periodicoSE990009045350403321Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Diritto dell'Economia. Università di Napoli Federico II1991-2003;2005-1/202DECBiblioteca Centrale della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell'Università di Napoli Federico II1989-1999;2002-2006;Per. Est. 922FGBCBiblioteca del dipartimento di Diritto Comune Patrimoniale.1989-1997;30-aDDCPDECFGBCDDCPRevue francaise de droit aerien et spatial787756UNINA866-01NA032 Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Diritto dell'Economia. Università di Napoli Federico II1/202via Cintia, Compl. Univ. Monte S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli (NA)081 675190 081 675122081 675123it866-02NA073 Biblioteca Centrale della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell'Università di Napoli Federico IIPer. Est. 922Corso Umberto I, 80138 Napoli (NA)0812537531/330812537532it866-03NA215 Biblioteca del dipartimento di Diritto Comune Patrimoniale.30-aVia Porta di Massa, 32, 80138 Napoli (NA)081/2534319081/2534319itacnp.cib.unibo.itACNP Italian Union Catalogue of Serialshttp://acnp.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/cnr/df-p.tcl?catno=947984&language=ITALIANO&libr=&person=&B=1&libr_th=unina&proposto=NO