Author: FABIAN, ANN
Title: The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America
Description: white, University of California Press. 2000. (ISBN: 9780520218628). Hardcover, 23.7 x 16 x 2.4 cm. Condition good. ref ZKVQ 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 well-crafted book describes the fascinating controversies surrounding these little-read tales and returns them to the social worlds where they were produced. Review "Occupying untracked ground, Fabian's book offers cameo turns of captives, beggars, sailors, murderers, runaway slaves, Union soldiers taken prisoner during the Civil War."--M. Cantor, "Choice About the Author Ann Fabian is Associate Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of "Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth Century America "(1990). Used: Acceptable.

Keywords: 9780520218628


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