The pornography of trauma : faking identity in misery memoirs

Examining hoax memoirs by James Frey (2003), Dave Pelzer (1995) and Kathy O’Beirne (2006), this paper illustrates how anxieties about the inability of representation to provide a direct access to truth are mitigated via an emotional connection with the text. While the degree of faking varies, each scandal reveals concerns about authenticity and the need to find—or feel—something that can be accepted as unquestionably ‘true’. The mimicking performed by a fake unsettles the boundaries between fact and fiction to reveal a public investment in an undisturbed effect of the real, a willingness to accept a blurring of ‘truth’ in the interests of the sensational experience of literature.

The worth of a penny : or, a caution to keep money. With the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want thereof as also how to save it in our diet, apparel, recreation, etc. And also what honest course men in want may take to live /

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Human nature in its fourfold state, of primitive integrity, entire depravation, begun recovery, and consummate happiness or misery, subsisting in the parents of mankind in paradise, the unregenerate, the regenerate [and] all mankind in the future state. In several practical discourses.

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Four sermons delivered at Cavendish, Vt. on the doctrine of endless misery /

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An antidote against deism : in a series of letters ... in which the arguments against the eternal prevalence of sin and misery and in favor of the restitution or final restoration of all things are candidly stated from Scripture and also an answer to objections; ... to which are added a review of President Edwards̓ sermon on the eternity of hell torments ... also some strictures on Dr. Rylands̓ sermon entitled The first lie refuted /

Page 267 incorrectly numbered 297.

A review of some of Professor Stuart's arguments in defence of endless misery : published in the American Biblical Repository, July 1840 /

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The wrongs of children, or, A practical vindication of children from the injustice done them in early nurture and education : addressed to parents, tutors, guardians, and masters, and to legislators and governors, setting forth the source of much human misery, and pointing out the remedy in a series of essays on education to be published periodically /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 22547.

Principles of nature, or, A development of the moral causes of happiness and misery among the human species. /

"Printed by George H. Evans, 40 Thompson Street"--colophon, p. 202.

Human nature in its fourfold state, of primitive integrity, entire depravation, begun recovery, and consummate happiness or misery, in the parents of mankind in paradise, the unregenerate, the regenerate, all mankind in the future state, in several practical discourses /

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Principles of nature, or, A development of the moral causes of happiness and misery among the human species /

"America printed."

Principles of nature; or, A development [!] of the moral causes of happiness and misery among the human species.

"In this edition there are five new chapters, viz, the 13, 19, 20, 21, and 26." -- preface.

The economy of misery

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