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

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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

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Edition	Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Description	1 online resource (665 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language	English.
Subject	Material culture -- United States.
	Material culture.
	United States.
	American literature -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
	Photography -- United States -- History.
	Photography.
	History.
	Imitation.
	Imitation.
	Authenticity (Philosophy)
	Authenticity (Philosophy)
	United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
	Civilization.
Chronological Term	1865-1918
Subject	United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
Chronological Term	1918-1945
Subject	United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918.
	Intellectual life.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
	1865-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Orvell, Miles. Real Thing : Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2014 9781469615363
ISBN	9781469615370 (electronic book)
	1469615371 (electronic book)
	146961538X
	9781469615387

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

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