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" The unvarnished truth : "
Ann Fabian
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BL
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583742
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GB9982529b412961
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| Main Entry
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Fabian, Ann
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The unvarnished truth : : personal narratives in nineteenth-century America /\ Ann Fabian
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xiii, 255 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0520218620
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: 9780520218628
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: 0520232011
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: 9780520232013
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-246) and index
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| Abstract
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"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."--Jacket
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Autobiography
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Poor-- United States, Biography
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Autobiographie
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Pauvres - États-Unis - Biographies
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United States, History, 19th century, Biography
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920.073
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E337.5.F33 2000
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