| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 320 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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 novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and others as "metropolitan autoethnographies" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects. --From publisher's description. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, British, in literature.
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Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Social isolation in literature.
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Outsiders in literature.
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Culture in literature.
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Self in literature.
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English fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00805273
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Culture in literature. (OCoLC)fst00885113
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Difference (Psychology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00893417
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English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
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National characteristics, British, in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033382
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Outsiders in literature. (OCoLC)fst01049263
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Self in literature. (OCoLC)fst01111462
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Social isolation in literature. (OCoLC)fst01122602
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Romans.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Buzard, James. Disorienting fiction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005 0691002320 9780691002323 (DLC) 2004040127 (OCoLC)55044684 |
| ISBN |
9781400826674 (electronic bk.) |
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1400826675 (electronic bk.) |
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