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