The American counterfeit [electronic resource] : authenticity and identity in American literature and culture / Mary McAleer Balkun.
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalismPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.Description: xii, 181 pSubject(s):- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 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
- 810.9/353 22
- PS228.C68 B35 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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