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Denenberg, Thomas. "Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America," American and New England Studies, Boston University, May 2001.
The life and work of Wallace Nutting (1881-1941) provides a paradigm for the exploration of middle-brow culture in the early twentieth century. Educated at Exeter, Harvard, and the Union Theological Seminary, Nutting served as a Congregational Minister before leaving the pulpit to become a photographer, writer, antiquarian, and cultural critic. This dissertation focuses on the ways in which Nutting employed the developing culture of consumption to sell his idealized notions of American history to a highly receptive public in a wide variety of media.
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