Before cultures
Subtitle: the ethnographic imagination in American literature, 1865-1920
By: Brad Evans.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Ethnology in literature; Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Ethnic groups im literature; Ethnicity in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The failed genealogies of culture; title: Eccentricity : Cushing's Zuni sketchbooks and American notions of culture; title: Circulating culture : reading the Harris-Powell folklore debate; title: The object-life of books : collecting local color; title: Howellsian chic : the local color of cosmopolitanism; title: The ends of culture : W.E.B. Du Bois and the legacy of Boasian anthropology; title: Afterword: On literature and anthropology.