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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453050103321

Titolo

Novel approaches to anthropology : contributions to literary anthropology / / edited by Marilyn Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD : , : Lexington Books, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-4985-1522-3

0-7391-7503-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CohenMarilyn <1952->

Disciplina

809/.93358

Soggetti

Literature and anthropology

Fiction - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Anthropological aspects of the novel / Marilyn Cohen -- A Shandean description of Frakean "ethnographic behavior" / Ray McDermott -- Reading Defoe, the eighteenth century master story-teller / Mary Elizabeth Reeve -- "A genuine Victorian oddity": Harriet Martineau's fiction / Marilyn Cohen -- Mark Twain's weapon of mass destruction: "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter" / David Surrey -- The Creole speaks: Daniel, Christophine and the other in the wide Sargaso Sea / John Pulis -- Ethnografiction and reality in contemporary Irish novels / Helena Wulff -- Engaging students' interest through fiction, memoirs and film / Ward Keeler.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of essays reflects current theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to literary anthropology. The interdisciplinary perspectives on novels and travel writing from the past and present are relevant to the social sciences and humanities including anthropology, sociology, political economy, history, cultural studies, literary criticism, gender, and women's studies.