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050 00 $aPS366.S95$bD4 1995
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100 1 $aDe Grave, Kathleen,$d1950-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95019824
245 10 $aSwindler, spy, rebel :$bthe confidence woman in nineteenth-century America /$cKathleen De Grave.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $ax, 270 pages ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.
520 $aOne would not expect a police officer to describe a criminal as "remarkable," "well worth knowing," or "excellent." Yet some did when their quarry was a confidence woman. Blackmailer, swindler, or pickpocket: the confidence woman could take any form.
520 8 $aRegardless of their different motives and tactics, confidence women have much in common, for they have long been misrepresented in American literature and culture. In Swindler, Spy, Rebel: The Confidence Woman in Nineteenth-Century America, Kathleen De Grave redresses the exaggerations and distortions by examining how the line between fact and fiction blurs.
520 8 $aDrawing from a variety of sources, such as memoirs, diaries, detective reports, newspaper accounts, and sociological studies written during the period, De Grave first presents a historical context.
520 8 $aBy comparing the exploits of such women as "Chicago May" Churchill, "Big Bertha" Heyman, and Ellen Peck to those of fictional women who used the same strategies in noncriminal situations, De Grave broadens the definition of the confidence woman beyond criminality to include adventuresses, soldiers/spies, and "gold diggers." Next, she relates how the confidence woman appears in autobiographies and in fiction.
520 8 $aShe further expands her argument to include the narrative devices of nineteenth-century women writers who used a kind of confidence game as a way to lure their readers into the text.
650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100759
650 0 $aSwindlers and swindling$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113610
650 0 $aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003541
650 0 $aSwindlers and swindling in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131234
650 0 $aFemale offenders in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002001706
650 0 $aWomen spies in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009188
650 0 $aDeception in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036188
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