Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British NovelsThis book gives an ambitious 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. |
Contents
BRITISH FICTIONS OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY CIRCA 1815 AND 1851 | 61 |
CHARLOTTE BRONTËS ENGLISH BOOKS | 157 |
AROUND AND AFTER 1860 | 277 |
Index | 315 |
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Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-century ... James Buzard No preview available - 2005 |