The Realm of the Real: Imitation and Authenticity in Edith Wharton's <em>The Custom of the Country</em>

Edith Wharton's 1913 novel The Custom of the Country reveals a national concern with defining and preserving authenticity in social and cultural life. A study of the novel through the lens of scholarship concerning the modernist obsession with "the real thing," including such seminal...

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Main Author: Atkinson, Brittany Brie
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2011
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2659
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3658&amp;context=etd