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Research Article| December 01 2007

Democratic Representations: Puffery and the Antebellum Print Explosion

Lara Langer Cohen

Lara Langer Cohen

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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 643–672.

https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-034

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Lara Langer Cohen; Democratic Representations: Puffery and the Antebellum Print Explosion. American Literature 1 December 2007; 79 (4): 643–672. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-034

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