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LEADER: 01860cam a2200349 a 4500
001 2005017750
003 DLC
005 20080807181439.0
008 050617s2006 alu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2005017750
020 $a9780817314972 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0817314970 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aPS228.C68$bB35 2006
082 00 $a810.9/353$222
100 1 $aBalkun, Mary McAleer.
245 14 $aThe American counterfeit :$bauthenticity and identity in American literature and culture /$cMary McAleer Balkun.
260 $aTuscaloosa :$bUniversity of Alabama Press,$cc2006.
300 $axii, 181 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCounterfeits and counterfeiting in literature.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAuthenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
650 0 $aImpostors and imposture in literature.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aPassing (Identity) in literature.
650 0 $aSelf in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005017750.html