Counterfeit culture: Truth and authenticity in the American prose epic since 1960
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 5735
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108625418
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108428484
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Counterfeit Culture is an 87,000-word monograph that focuses on the American prose epic. This is a field in which texts are often expansive, stretching across thousands of pages; some were studied in manuscript form, and remain unpublished. The book concentrates on five core authors writing since 1960, but situates their work within a much longer body of American writing since John Smith (reaching back to texts published in 1624). As well as analysing a huge array of primary texts and historical contexts (demanding five years of research), the project involved extensive archival work, undertaken in the US (Ohio and California).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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