Orvell, Miles. <br/><br/>
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) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469615370 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Material culture--United States.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.<br/>Photography--History.--United States<br/>Imitation.<br/>Authenticity (Philosophy)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E169  / .R435 2014