TY - BOOK AU - Orvell,Miles TI - The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 SN - 9781469615370 AV - E169 .R435 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Material culture KW - United States KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Photography KW - History KW - Imitation KW - Authenticity (Philosophy) KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=906758&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -