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Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Scott E. Casper New edition
Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Scott E. Casper
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 |