Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America /
Margaret Reid.
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 259 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.
Imagining cultural origins in James Fenimore Cooper's The spy -- History's revolutions in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Traces of a vanished world" in Owen Wister's The Virginian -- Conclusion : the storyteller's legacy from Quentin Compson to Oedipa Maas.
Culture in literature. Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century. Storytelling--History--United States--19th century. Literature and history--History--United States--19th century. Historical fiction, American--History and criticism. American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century