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Author:

Balkun, Mary McAleer.

Title:

The American counterfeit : authenticity and identity in American literature and culture / Mary McAleer Balkun.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xii, 181 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.

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.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

ISBN:

9780817314972
0817314970 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60743162

LCCN:

2005017750

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)