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

Cultural secrets as narrative form : storytelling in nineteenth-century America / Margaret Reid.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author: Reid, Margaret (Margaret K.) (Author)
Other title:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864. > Scarlet letter.
Cooper, James Fenimore, > 1789-1851. > Spy.
Wister, Owen, > 1860-1938. > Virginian.
Scarlet letter (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
Spy (Cooper, James Fenimore)
Virginian (Wister, Owen)
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
Literature and history > United States > History > 19th century.
Storytelling > United States > History > 19th century.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Culture in literature.
American fiction.
Historical fiction, American.
Literature and history.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Storytelling.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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