The American counterfeit
Subtitle: authenticity and identity in American literature and culture
By: Mary McAleer Balkun.
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780817314972
Subjects: 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 and index.
Table of contents: title: The real, the self, and commodity culture, 1880-1930; title: Whitman's natural history : specimen days and the culture of authenticity; title: "I couldn't see no profit in it" : discourses of commoditization and authenticity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; title: Connoisseurs and counterfeits : Edith Wharton's The house of mirth; title: Dressing to kill : desire, race, and authenticity in Nella Larsen's Passing; title: A world of wonders : collecting and the authentic self in The great Gatsby.