The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Biographical Showman

"The Biographical Showman." New-York Saturday Press, June 30, 1860, 2.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
literary criticism
Abstract

Criticism of the writer that uses biographies for his own career advancement, to manipulate the history to his own literary strengths and parlaying other mens' legacies into his own.