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Brad Evans

Before Cultures

The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920

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The term culture in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910--more than a century after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years after E. B. Tylor and Franz Boas made it the object of anthropological attention. Before Cultures explores this delay in the development of the culture concept and its relation to the description of difference in late nineteenth-century America. In this work, Brad Evans weaves together the histories of American literature and anthropology. His study brings alive not only the regionalist and ethnographic fiction of the time but also revives a range of… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-226-22264-6
  • EAN: 9780226222646
  • Produktnummer: 1724075
  • Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B16.7 cm x D1.6 cm 396 g
  • Auflage: New ed
  • Gewicht: 396
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Brad Evans is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.

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