Fast talk & flush times : the confidence man as a literary convention / William E. Lenz.
Material type: TextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1985.Description: 237 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0826204503
- PS374.T7 L46 1985
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Bibliography: p. 221-232.
Includes index.
WAR, NEWBERY,
The new country -- The early tradition of confidence games -- The emergence of the confidence-man convention -- Four variations of the confidence man -- The war, Mark Twain, and the flush-times confidence man -- From the new country to the twentieth century.