The ethnography of manners : Hawthorne, James, Wharton /

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 �...

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Main Author: Bentley, Nancy, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 90.
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