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Author:

Schweighauser, Philipp, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005091678

Title:

Beautiful deceptions : European aesthetics, the early American novel, and illusionist art / Philipp Schweighauser.

Publisher:

University of Virginia,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

American fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Deception in literature.
Aesthetics, American.
Aesthetics, European.
Aesthetics, American.
Aesthetics, European.
American fiction.
Art, American.
Deception.
Deception in literature.
Hallucinations and illusions in art.
Illusion in literature.
1700-1899
Art.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-242) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Aesthetics, politics, and the early American novel -- Political deceptions and sensory delusions -- The right to deception -- Visual artifice -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

0813939038
9780813939032

OCLC:

(OCoLC)950448655

LCCN:

2016006839

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)