Winter, ThomasCarroll, Bret E.2019-05-172019-05-1720049780761925408http://hdl.handle.net/11693/51378The confidence man—a man who takes advantage of people by gaining their confidence, convincing them to trust him with their possessions, and then stealing those possessions— was a male archetype of Victorian middle-class culture. He symbolized middle-class Americans' anxieties about the potential for predatory male behavior in the increasingly anonymous, impersonal, and competitive social world being created by urbanization and the market revolution.EnglishMen's StudiesBook Chapter10.4135/9781412956369.n5010.4135/97814129563699781412956369