The Confidence Game in American Literature /

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�...

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Main Author: Wadlington, Warwick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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