British fiction and cross-cultural encounters : ethnographic modernism from Wells to Woolf
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British fiction and cross-cultural encounters : ethnographic modernism from Wells to Woolf
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. [221]-244
Includes index
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Description
This book reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, sometimes conducted their own 'fieldwork', and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction, letters, and essays.
Table of Contents
Ethnographic Observers Observed Explorer Ethnography and Rider Haggard's Adventure Fiction Bewilderment as Style and Methodology in the Writings of Mary Kingsley, H.G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad Self Nativizing in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and the Limitations of Ethnographic Rapport and Understanding D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, and Ethnological Tourism in the Southwest
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