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British fiction and cross-cultural encounters : ethnographic modernism from Wells to Woolf / Carey J. Snyder.
Van Pelt Library PR878.E84 S69 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snyder, Carey J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--Cross-cultural studies.
- Ethnology in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 253 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- This book reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, sometimes conducted their own "fieldwork," and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction, letters, and essays.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230602915
- 0230602916
- OCLC:
- 154703600
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