TY - BOOK AU - Reid,Margaret ED - Project Muse. TI - Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America SN - 9780814273371 AV - PS374.H5 R45 2004 U1 - 813/.309358 22 PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Wister, Owen, KW - Cooper, James Fenimore, KW - Hawthorne, Nathaniel, KW - Culture in literature KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Storytelling KW - United States KW - Literature and history KW - Historical fiction, American KW - History and criticism KW - American fiction KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28367/ ER -