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The confidence man in American literature, Gary Lindberg

Work
Publication
Extent
x, 319 pages
Contents
  • Promise land
  • Shape shifting and self-reliance
  • A solitary performance at Walden Pond
  • 3.
  • Tricking tricksters: survival in a confidence culture:
  • Inside the gilded age: P.T. Barnum, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn
  • Diddling on a large scale: robber barons, snopeses, and V.K. Ratliff
  • 4.
  • "Something further may follow of this masquerade": contemporary conning:
  • Playing for real
  • 1.
  • Faith on the run
  • It's just a game
  • "It is good to be shifty in a new country": assessments of America:
  • Melville's The confidence man: duplicity and identity in a new country
  • Poe's credentials: the confidence man as a new world artist
  • 2.
  • How to do it: making a self for fun and profit:
  • Benjamin Franklin and the model self
  • Making it: from Enlightenment to gilded age
Isbn
9780195029390
Instance
Label
The confidence man in American literature
Title
The confidence man in American literature
Statement of responsibility
Gary Lindberg
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1941-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Lindberg, Gary H.
Index
index present
LC call number
PS366.S95
LC item number
L5
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Twain, Mark
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Melville, Herman
  • Franklin, Benjamin
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • Franklin, Benjamin
  • Melville, Herman
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Twain, Mark
  • American prose literature
  • Swindlers and swindling in literature
  • Swindlers and swindling
  • Prose américaine
  • Escrocs dans la littérature
  • Escroqueries
  • American prose literature
  • Civilization
  • Swindlers and swindling
  • Swindlers and swindling in literature
  • United States
  • États-Unis
  • United States
Label
The confidence man in American literature, Gary Lindberg
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Promise land
  • Shape shifting and self-reliance
  • A solitary performance at Walden Pond
  • 3.
  • Tricking tricksters: survival in a confidence culture:
  • Inside the gilded age: P.T. Barnum, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn
  • Diddling on a large scale: robber barons, snopeses, and V.K. Ratliff
  • 4.
  • "Something further may follow of this masquerade": contemporary conning:
  • Playing for real
  • 1.
  • Faith on the run
  • It's just a game
  • "It is good to be shifty in a new country": assessments of America:
  • Melville's The confidence man: duplicity and identity in a new country
  • Poe's credentials: the confidence man as a new world artist
  • 2.
  • How to do it: making a self for fun and profit:
  • Benjamin Franklin and the model self
  • Making it: from Enlightenment to gilded age
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 319 pages
Isbn
9780195029390
Lccn
80029233
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)07176292
  • (OCoLC)ocm07176292
Label
The confidence man in American literature, Gary Lindberg
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Promise land
  • Shape shifting and self-reliance
  • A solitary performance at Walden Pond
  • 3.
  • Tricking tricksters: survival in a confidence culture:
  • Inside the gilded age: P.T. Barnum, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn
  • Diddling on a large scale: robber barons, snopeses, and V.K. Ratliff
  • 4.
  • "Something further may follow of this masquerade": contemporary conning:
  • Playing for real
  • 1.
  • Faith on the run
  • It's just a game
  • "It is good to be shifty in a new country": assessments of America:
  • Melville's The confidence man: duplicity and identity in a new country
  • Poe's credentials: the confidence man as a new world artist
  • 2.
  • How to do it: making a self for fun and profit:
  • Benjamin Franklin and the model self
  • Making it: from Enlightenment to gilded age
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 319 pages
Isbn
9780195029390
Lccn
80029233
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)07176292
  • (OCoLC)ocm07176292

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