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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Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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