Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art by Philipp Schweighauser
Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art

Philipp Schweighauser

Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art

Philipp Schweighauser

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The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shre...

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