Autore	Cohen Lara Langer
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/003
Collana	Material Texts
Soggetto topico	American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism Truthfulness and falsehood in literature Fraud in literature
Soggetto non controllato	Cultural Studies Literature
ISBN	1-283-89117-4 0-8122-0519-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. American Literary Fraudulence -- Chapter 1. ''One Vast Perambulating Humbug'': Literary Nationalism and the Rise of the Puffing System -- Chapter 2. Backwoods and Blackface: The Strange Careers of Davy Crockett and Jim Crow -- Chapter 3. ''Slavery Never Can Be Represented'': James Williams and the Racial Politics of Imposture -- Chapter 4. Mediums of Exchange: Fanny Fern's Unoriginality -- Conclusion. The Confidence Man on a Large Scale -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910826088803321

Autore	Loving Jerome
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1993
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (269 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/003 810.9003
Soggetto topico	American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc - 19th century - United States Authorship - History - Social aspects - 19th century - United States Literature and society - History - 19th century Self in literature Canon (Literature) American Literature English Languages & Literatures
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-58729-135-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART ONE; 1. living's Paradigm; 2. Hawthorne's Awakening in the Customhouse; 3. Melville's High on the Seas; 4. Poe's Voyage from Edgartown; 5. Emerson's Beautiful Estate; 6. Thoreau's Quarrel with Emerson; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART TWO; 7. Whitman's Idea of Women; 8. Twain's Cigar-Store Indians; 9. Dickinson's Unpublished Canon; 10. Henry James's Pearl at a Great Price; 11. Chopin's Twenty-Ninth Bather; 12. Dreiser's Novel About a Nun; Epilogue; Notes; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456430803321

Autore	Adams Amanda <1977->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (179 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/003
Collana	Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Soggetto topico	Authors, American - 19th century - Travel - England Authors, English - 19th century - Travel - United States American literature - 19th century - Appreciation - England English literature - 19th century - Appreciation - United States Lectures and lecturing - United States Lectures and lecturing - England Authorship - Marketing
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-317-08248-6 1-317-08247-8 1-4724-1665-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour and the Case of Frederick Douglass; 1 Seen and Not Heard: The Transatlantic Tours of Harriet Martineau and Harriet Beecher Stowe; 2 Performing Ownership: Dickens, Twain, and Copyright on the Transatlantic Stage; 3 Apostles in the Flesh: Arnold, Wilde, and the Reproduction of Personality in America; 4 The Voice of the Master: Henry James and the Paradox of Performance; Conclusion: Performing Authorship beyond the Nineteenth Century; Works Cited; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464705403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/003 810.9003
Altri autori (Persone)	MartinRobert K. <1941-> PersonLeland S
Soggetto topico	American literature - Italian influences Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Americans - Italy - History - 19th century Authors, American - 19th century Artists - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-58729-404-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Machine generated contents note: RICHARD H. MILLINGTON 9 -- Where Is Hawthorne's Rome? -- The Marble Faun and the Cultural Space of Middle-Class Leisure -- ROBERT K. MARTIN 28 -- "An Awful Freedom": -- Hawthorne and the Anxieties of the Carnival -- KRISTIE HAMILTON 41 -- Fauns and Mohicans: -- Narratives of Extinction and Hawthorne's Aesthetic of Modernity -- NANCY PROCTOR 60 -- The Purloined Studio: -- The Woman Sculptor as Phallic Ghost in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun -- JOHN CARLOS ROWE 73 -- Hawthorne's Ghost in James's Italy: -- Sculptural Form, Romantic Narrative, and the Function of Sexuality -- in The Marble Faun, "Adina," and William Wetmore Story and His Friends -- LELAND S. PERSON 107 -- Falling into Heterosexuality: -- Sculpting Male Bodies in The Marble Faun and Roderick Hudson -- PRISCILLA L. WALTON 140 -- Roman Springs and Roman Fevers: -- James, Gender, and Transnational Dis-ease -- ADAM PARKES 159 -- Henry James's Italian Hours and the "Ruskinian Contagion" -- BRIGITTE BAILEY I75 -- Fuller, Hawthorne, and Imagining Urban Spaces in Rome -- SUSAN M. GRIFFIN 191 -- The Black Robe of Romance: -- Hawthorne's Shadow and Howells's Italian Priest -- ROBERT MILDER 206 -- "The Connecting Link of Centuries": -- Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1 8S , 6 8S 7 -- ROBERT S. LEVINE 226 -- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450807203321