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Title Novel approaches to anthropology : contributions to literary anthropology / edited by Marilyn Cohen.

Publication Info. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Anthropological aspects of the novel / Marilyn Cohen -- A Shandean description of Frakean "ethnographic behavior" / Ray McDermott -- Reading Defoe, the eighteenth century master story-teller / Mary Elizabeth Reeve -- "A genuine Victorian oddity": Harriet Martineau's fiction / Marilyn Cohen -- Mark Twain's weapon of mass destruction: "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter" / David Surrey -- The Creole speaks: Daniel, Christophine and the other in the wide Sargaso Sea / John Pulis -- Ethnografiction and reality in contemporary Irish novels / Helena Wulff -- Engaging students' interest through fiction, memoirs and film / Ward Keeler.
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Summary <Span><span style=""line-height:2""><span>This volume of essays reflects current theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to literary anthropology. The interdisciplinary perspectives on novels and travel writing from the past and present are relevant to the social sciences and humanities including anthropology, sociology, political economy, history, cultural studies, literary criticism, gender, and women's studies.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span></span>
Subject Literature and anthropology.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
Literature and anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01000071
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author Cohen, Marilyn, 1952- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Novel approaches to anthropology 9780739175026 (DLC) 2013014086 (OCoLC)833300756
ISBN 9780739175033 (electronic bk.)
0739175033 (electronic bk.)
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