Novel approaches to anthropology : contributions to literary anthropology /
Novel approaches to anthropology : contributions to literary anthropology /
edited by Marilyn Cohen
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013.
- vii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Anthropological aspects of the novel / Marilyn Cohen -- A Shandean description of Frakean "ethnographic behavior" / Ray McDermott -- Reading Defoe, the eighteenth century master story-teller / Mary Elizabeth Reeve -- "A genuine Victorian oddity": Harriet Martineau's fiction / Marilyn Cohen -- Mark Twain's weapon of mass destruction: "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter" / David Surrey -- The Creole speaks: Daniel, Christophine and the other in the wide Sargaso Sea / John Pulis -- Ethnografiction and reality in contemporary Irish novels / Helena Wulff -- Engaging students' interest through fiction, memoirs and film / Ward Keeler.
9780739175026 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739175025 (cloth : alk. paper)
Literature and Anthropology
Fiction--History and Criticism
809.93358 / COH/N
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Anthropological aspects of the novel / Marilyn Cohen -- A Shandean description of Frakean "ethnographic behavior" / Ray McDermott -- Reading Defoe, the eighteenth century master story-teller / Mary Elizabeth Reeve -- "A genuine Victorian oddity": Harriet Martineau's fiction / Marilyn Cohen -- Mark Twain's weapon of mass destruction: "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter" / David Surrey -- The Creole speaks: Daniel, Christophine and the other in the wide Sargaso Sea / John Pulis -- Ethnografiction and reality in contemporary Irish novels / Helena Wulff -- Engaging students' interest through fiction, memoirs and film / Ward Keeler.
9780739175026 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739175025 (cloth : alk. paper)
Literature and Anthropology
Fiction--History and Criticism
809.93358 / COH/N