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

Informationen zum Autor Mary McAleer Balkun is associate professor and Chair of English at Seton Hall University. Klappentext Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Balkun, Mary McAleer Balkun
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2012
• EAN: 9780817357429
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5742-9
• Series: Studies in American Literary R; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies