Intimate & Authentic Economies of the American Self-Made Man : From Douglass to Chaplin.

The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book examines numerous texts from Reconstruction-era autobiographies to the films of the 1930s.

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Main Author: Nissley, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2003.
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505 0 |a Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Alienable, Intimate, Authentic; Free Labor and Intimate Capital: The Postwar Autobiographies of Douglass, Brown, and Washington; The Nature Theater of Americana: Horatio Alger's Earnest Commodities; Racial Credit, White Money, and the Novel of Assimilative Lament; The Reality Effect in the Film Machine: The Authentic Performances of the Silent Comedies; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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