Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America - Scott E. Casper - Books - The University of North Carolina Press - 9780807847657 - April 26, 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.


464 pages, 15 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 26, 1999
ISBN13 9780807847657
Publishers The University of North Carolina Press
Pages 456
Dimensions 156 × 235 × 27 mm   ·   644 g
Language English  

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