Title The Real Thing : Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940

Edition Twenty-fifth anniversary edition Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (665 pages) Contents Cover Page; The Real Thing; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Condition of Future Development; One: Whitman's Transformed Eye; Part Two: A Culture of Imitation; Introduction; Two: A Hieroglyphic World; Three: Photography and the Artifice of Realism; Four: The Romance of the Real; Part Three: Inventing Authenticity; Introduction; Five: The Real Thing and the Machine-made World; Six: The Camera and the Verification of Fact; Seven: Not "Realism" but Reality Itself Epilogue: The Dump Is Full of ImagesNotes; Bibliography; Index Summary Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Material culture -- United States American literature -- History and criticism. Photography -- United States -- History Imitation. Authenticity (Philosophy) Imitative Behavior HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. American literature Authenticity (Philosophy) Civilization Imitation Intellectual life Material culture Photography SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139940 United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139943 United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140366 United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367 Subject United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469615370 1469615371 146961538X 9781469615387

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