The American counterfeit [electronic resource] : authenticity and identity in American literature and culture / Mary McAleer Balkun.

By: Balkun, Mary McAleerContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in American literary realism and naturalismPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006Description: 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/353 LOC classification: PS228.C68 | B35 2006Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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