The Ethnography of Manners : Hawthorne, James and Wharton Paperback / softback
by Nancy (University of Pennsylvania) Bentley
Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
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This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing 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'.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2007
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- ISBN:9780521039666
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521039666
