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The Confidence Game in American Literature
(Paperback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Confidence Game in American Literature
Contributors:
By (Author) Warwick Wadlington
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
19th May 2015
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
810.9
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
346
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
482g
Description
Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Nathanael West as creators of a fictive experience centered in deceptive or problematic transactions of confidence. The model of a confidence game, suggested by the writers' own thematic preoccupations, permits an analysis o
