Disorienting fiction : the autoethnographic work of nineteenth-century British novels /

This book gives a revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century n...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Buzard, James
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2005.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rzbr
Table des matières:
  • Uneven developments: "Culture," circa 2000 and 1900
  • Ethnographic locations and dislocations
  • The fiction of autoethnography
  • Translation and tourism in Scott's Waverley
  • Anywhere's nowhere: Bleak House as metropolitan autoethnography
  • Identities, locations, and media
  • An Echantillon of Englishness: The Professor
  • The wild English girl: Jane Eyre
  • National Pentecostalism: Shirley
  • Outlandish nationalism: Villette
  • Eliot, interrupted
  • Ethnography as interruption: Morris's News from nowhere.