Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America

by Margaret Reid

Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America examines the interplay between the familiar and the forgotten in tales of America's first century as a nation. By studying both the common concerns and the rising tensions between the known and the unknown, the told and the untold, this book offers readers new insight into the making of a nation through stories. Here, identity is built not so much through the winnowing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814251188
• ISBN13: 9780814251188
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.6"