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Hardcover The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture Book

ISBN: 0817314970

ISBN13: 9780817314972

The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture

(Part of the Studies in American Realism and Naturalism Series)

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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...

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