Disorienting Fiction : : The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels / / James Buzard.

This 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 nineteent...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART ONE. Cultures and Autoethnography
  • CHAPTER ONE. Uneven Developments: "Culture," circa 2000 and 1900
  • CHAPTER TWO. Ethnographic Locations and Dislocations
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Fiction of Autoethnography
  • PART TWO. British Fictions of Autoethnography, circa 1815 and 1851
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Translation and Tourism in Scott's Waverley
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Anywhere's Nowhere: Bleak House as Metropolitan Autoethnography
  • PART THREE. Charlotte Brontë's English Books
  • CHAPTER SIX. Identities, Locations, and Media
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Wild English Girl: Jane Eyre
  • CHAPTER NINE. National Pentecostalism: Shirley
  • CHAPTER TEN. Outlandish Nationalism: Villette
  • PART FOUR. Around and After 1860
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Eliot, Interrupted
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. Ethnography as Interruption: Morris's News from Nowhere
  • Index