Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920

by Brad Evans (Author)

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  2005

  $36.03

  Explores this delay in the development of the culture concept and its relation to the description of difference in late nineteenth-century America. The author weaves together the histories of American literature and anthropology. His study brings to life not only the regionalist fiction of the time but also revives a range of neglected materials.