Abstract
The essay discusses Fanny Fern's autobiographical narrative Ruth Hall (1854) in the context of the emerging entertainment industry in antebellum America. A brief analysis of Fern's narrative strategies, focusing on aspects of the characters' visual exposure, reveals that Fern's selfportrait as the authentic and independent Ruth Hall is in complex ways implicated in the very mechanisms she purports to confront.
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