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The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James and Wharton (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
The Ethnography of Manners Hawthorne James and Wharton - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Author: Nancy Bentley
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 tur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521039666
ISBN-10: 0521039665
Publication Date: 8/27/2007
Pages: 260
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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