LEADER 05891nam 2200877 a 450 001 9910454760203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08782-7 010 $a1-282-93539-9 010 $a9786612935398 010 $a9786612087820 010 $a1-4008-2667-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826674 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756337 035 $a(EBL)445460 035 $a(OCoLC)367692746 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139970 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144888 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139970 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10030040 035 $a(PQKB)11673069 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445460 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36344 035 $a(DE-B1597)446468 035 $a(OCoLC)979741719 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4968546 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284224 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293539 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4968546 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208782 035 $a(OCoLC)1027156387 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756337 100 $a20040412d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDisorienting fiction$b[electronic resource] $ethe autoethnographic work of nineteenth-century British novels /$fJames Buzard 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-00232-0 311 $a0-691-09555-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tPART ONE. Cultures and Autoethnography -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Uneven Developments: "Culture," circa 2000 and 1900 -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Ethnographic Locations and Dislocations -- $tCHAPTER THREE. The Fiction of Autoethnography -- $tPART TWO. British Fictions of Autoethnography, circa 1815 and 1851 -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Translation and Tourism in Scott's Waverley -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Anywhere's Nowhere: Bleak House as Metropolitan Autoethnography -- $tPART THREE. Charlotte Brontė's English Books -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Identities, Locations, and Media -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT. The Wild English Girl: Jane Eyre -- $tCHAPTER NINE. National Pentecostalism: Shirley -- $tCHAPTER TEN. Outlandish Nationalism: Villette -- $tPART FOUR. Around and After 1860 -- $tCHAPTER ELEVEN. Eliot, Interrupted -- $tCHAPTER TWELVE. Ethnography as Interruption: Morris's News from Nowhere -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontė, George Eliot, and others as "metropolitan autoethnographies" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects. Disorienting Fiction shows how English Victorian novels appropriated and anglicized an autoethnographic mode of fiction developed early in the nineteenth century by the Irish authors of the National Tale and, most influentially, by Walter Scott. Buzard demonstrates that whereas the fiction of these non-English British subjects devoted itself to describing and defending (but also inventing) the cultural autonomy of peripheral regions, the English novels that followed them worked to imagine limited and mappable versions of English or British culture in reaction against the potential evacuation of cultural distinctiveness threatened by Britain's own commercial and imperial expansion. These latter novels attempted to forestall the self-incurred liabilities of a nation whose unprecedented reach and power tempted it to universalize and export its own customs, to treat them as simply equivalent to a globally applicable civilization. For many Victorian novelists, a nation facing the prospect of being able to go and to exercise its influence just about anywhere in the world also faced the danger of turning itself into a cultural nowhere. The complex autoethnographic work of nineteenth-century British novels was thus a labor to disorient or de-globalize British national imaginings, and novelists mobilized and freighted with new significance some basic elements of prose narrative in their efforts to write British culture into being. Sure to provoke debate, this book offers a commanding reassessment of a major moment in the history of British literature. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, British, in literature 606 $aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature 606 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature 606 $aSocial isolation in literature 606 $aOutsiders in literature 606 $aCulture in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, British, in literature. 615 0$aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aSocial isolation in literature. 615 0$aOutsiders in literature. 615 0$aCulture in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a823/.809358 700 $aBuzard$b James$0456143 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454760203321 996 $aDisorienting fiction$92484880 997 $aUNINA