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Author:

Evans, Brad

Title:

Before cultures : the ethnographic imagination in American literature, 1865-1920 / Brad Evans.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

x, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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 in literature
Ethnicity in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-232) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the failed genealogies of culture -- Eccentricity : Cushing's Zuni sketchbooks and American notions of culture -- Circulating culture : reading the Harris-Powell folklore debate -- The object-life of books : collecting local color -- Howellsian chic : the local color of cosmopolitanism -- The ends of culture : W.E.B. Du Bois and the legacy of Boasian anthropology -- Afterword: On literature and anthropology.

ISBN:

9780226222646
0226222640 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226222639
0226222632 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58986408

LCCN:

2005008993

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)