Revised Lives(English, Paperback, Pannapacker William)

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Revised Lives(English, Paperback, Pannapacker William) is written by Pannapacker William and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0367864142 (ISBN 10) and 9780367864149 (ISBN 13).

Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, this book focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae, and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities. Special emphasis is given to Walt Whitman, but other figures are treated at length: P. T. Barnum, Edward Carpenter, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe. This study contributes to the understanding of selfhood in nineteenth-century American culture, the development of autobiography as a genre, and the dynamics of literary reception.