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Fast talk & flush times : the confidence man as a literary convention / William E. Lenz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1985.Description: 237 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0826204503
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS374.T7 L46 1985
Contents:
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PS374.T7L46 1985 1 Available 33710000718135

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.