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Alienation (Social psychology) in literature --- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature --- Aliënatie (Sociale psychologie) in de literatuur --- Aliënatie [Sociale ] in de literatuur --- Antihelden in de literatuur --- Antiheroes in literature --- Antihéros dans la littérature --- Isolation sociale dans la littérature --- Sociaal isolement in de literatuur --- Social isolation in literature --- Sociale aliënatie in de literatuur --- Sociale vervreemding in de literatuur --- Vervreemding [Sociale ] in de literatuur --- Victims in literature --- American fiction --- Roman américain --- Victimes dans la littérature --- Isolement social dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Roman américain --- Victimes dans la littérature --- Isolement social dans la littérature --- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature --- Antihéros dans la littérature --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Criticism and interpretation --- Melville, Herman --- Twain, Mark --- Lewis, Sinclair --- Bellow, Saul --- Dos Passos, John --- Steinbeck, John --- Crane, Stephen --- Hemingway, Ernest --- Jones, James --- Mailer, Norman

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This 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 Brontë, 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.

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