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Book SynopsisOffers an account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the historical process that gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture. This book shows how English Victorian novels appropriated an autoethnographic mode of fiction developed in the nineteenth century.
Trade Review"Most exciting to a student of the novel ... is the book's fresh interpretation of the genre's history in the nineteenth century, the explanation of many of its salient formal features as parts of a cultural project heretofore unnoticed."--Catherine Gallagher, Novel
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii PART ONE: CULTURES AND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 1 CHAPTER ONE: Uneven Developments: "Culture," circa 2000 and 1900 3 CHAPTER TWO: Ethnographic Locations and Dislocations 19 CHAPTER THREE: The Fiction of Autoethnography 37 PART TWO: BRITISH FICTIONS OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY, CIRCA 1815 AND 1851 61 CHAPTER FOUR: Translation and Tourism in Scott's Waverley 63 CHAPTER FIVE: Anywhere's Nowhere: Bleak House as Metropolitan Autoethnography 105 PART THREE: CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S ENGLISH BOOKS 157 CHAPTER SIX: Identities, Locations, and Media 159 CHAPTER SEVEN: An chantillon of Englishness: The Professor 180 CHAPTER EIGHT: The Wild English Girl: Jane Eyre 196 CHAPTER NINE: National Pentecostalism: Shirley 218 CHAPTER TEN: Outlandish Nationalism: Villette 245 PART FOUR: AROUND AND AFTER 1860 277 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Eliot, Interrupted 279 CHAPTER TWELVE: Ethnography as Interruption: Morris's News from Nowhere 299 INDEX 315
