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The Ethnography of Manners : Hawthorne, James and Wharton / Nancy Bentley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bentley, Nancy.
- Series:
- Cambridge books online.
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Literature and anthropology--United States.
- Literature and anthropology.
- Literature and society--United States.
- Literature and society.
- United States.
- Manners and customs in literature.
- Ethnology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analyzing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful master discourse of "culture", a discourse that allowed writers to turn new social energies and fears into particular kinds of authorial expertise. Crossing a range of institutions (anthropology, literature, museums, law) and texts (novels, ethnographies, travel books, social theory), this study allows fiction to take its place in a web of social practices that categorize, display, and regulate what Wharton calls "the customs of the country".
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2012).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511570353
- 9780521461900
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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