The American counterfeit [[electronic resource] ] : authenticity and identity in American literature and culture / / Mary McAleer Balkun
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| Autore: |
Balkun Mary McAleer
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| Titolo: |
The American counterfeit [[electronic resource] ] : authenticity and identity in American literature and culture / / Mary McAleer Balkun
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The American counterfeit |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8257-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455035303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.