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The American counterfeit : authenticity and identity in American literature and culture / Mary McAleer Balkun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balkun, Mary McAleer.
- Series:
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Counterfeits and counterfeiting in literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
- Impostors and imposture in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Passing (Identity) in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the "counterfeit," both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that the acquisition of objects came to define individuals in American culture and literature. Counterfeiting is, in one sense, about the creation of something that appears authentic-an invented self, a museum display, a forged work of art. But the counterfeit can also be a means by which the authentic
- Contents:
- The real, the self, and commodity culture, 1880-1930
- Whitman's natural history : specimen days and the culture of authenticity
- "I couldn't see no profit in it" : discourses of commoditization and authenticity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Connoisseurs and counterfeits : Edith Wharton's The house of mirth
- Dressing to kill : desire, race, and authenticity in Nella Larsen's Passing
- A world of wonders : collecting and the authentic self in The great Gatsby.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8257-7
- OCLC:
- 424521930
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