Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-century America

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1999
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A study of how Americans wrote, published and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the 19th century. It also reveals disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of US history, and the place of US literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters.

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A study of how Americans wrote, published and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the 19th century. It also reveals disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of US history, and the place of US literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 456
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 30 Apr 1999
ISBN 10: 0807847658
ISBN 13: 9780807847657

Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-century America

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$54.29

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$54.29

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