TY - BOOK AU - Balkun,Mary McAleer ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The American counterfeit: authenticity and identity in American literature and culture T2 - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism AV - PS228.C68 B35 2006eb U1 - 810.9/353 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Counterfeits and counterfeiting in literature KW - 19th century KW - Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature KW - Impostors and imposture in literature KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Passing (Identity) in literature KW - Self in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10309853 ER -