The Real Thing : Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940.
Orvell, Miles.
The Real Thing : Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940. - Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.ition - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (665 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940.
9781469615370
Material culture--United States.
American literature--History and criticism.
Photography--History.--United States
Imitation.
Authenticity (Philosophy)
Electronic Books.
E169 / .R435 2014
The Real Thing : Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940. - Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.ition - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (665 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940.
9781469615370
Material culture--United States.
American literature--History and criticism.
Photography--History.--United States
Imitation.
Authenticity (Philosophy)
Electronic Books.
E169 / .R435 2014