Casper, Scott E.

Constructing American lives : biography & culture in nineteenth-century America / Scott E. Casper - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999 - xii, 439 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-425) and index

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Biography as a literary form


United States--History and criticism--Biography
United States--Social life and customs--19th century