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Author Fabian, Ann, author.

Title The unvarnished truth : personal narratives in nineteenth-century America / Ann Fabian.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-246) and index.
Summary "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.
Contents Beggars -- Convicts -- Slaves -- Prisoners of war -- Epilogue: lovers, farm wives, and tramps.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Autobiography.
Autobiography.
Poor -- United States -- Biography.
Poor.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Fabian, Ann. Unvarnished truth. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000 0520218620 (DLC) 99012652 (OCoLC)40744322
ISBN 9780520928039 (electronic book)
0520928032 (electronic book)
0585274134 (electronic book)
9780585274133 (electronic book)
0520218620 (alkaline paper)
9780520218628