The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James and Wharton

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

by Nancy Bentley

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521039665

ISBN13:9780521039666

Release Date:August 2007

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:260 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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