A fictive people

Ronald J. Zboray

earliest edition we have, 1992 Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1993

"This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometim...

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Fictive People edition · 1993 · Oxford University Press · 9781280526237
Fictive People edition · 1993 · Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9780195344905
A fictive people edition · 1993 · Oxford University Press · 326 pages · 9780195075823

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