Title

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

Authors

Mary M. Balkun

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2006

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

City

Tuscaloosa

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.

Share

COinS