Book
The American Counterfeit : Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
(2006)
Abstract
Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, this book 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.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2006
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Series
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Citation Information
Mary M. Balkun. The American Counterfeit : Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture. Tuscaloosa(2006) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mary_balkun/5/