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Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture
Handler, Richard; Segal, Daniel
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Description for Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture
Paperback. With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis. Authors Handler and Segal have approached Jane Austen's writing as a source for interpreting the cultural ideology of kinship, social rank, courtship, and marriage in Austen's England. Arguing against the conventional reading of Austen as portrayer and upholder of a well-ordered society, they evaluate the rhetorical techniques that make Austen an effective ethnographer of diverse, though intertwined social realities. They show ... Read more
With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis. Authors Handler and Segal have approached Jane Austen's writing as a source for interpreting the cultural ideology of kinship, social rank, courtship, and marriage in Austen's England. Arguing against the conventional reading of Austen as portrayer and upholder of a well-ordered society, they evaluate the rhetorical techniques that make Austen an effective ethnographer of diverse, though intertwined social realities. They show ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847690480
SKU
V9780847690480
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Ref
99-15
About Handler, Richard; Segal, Daniel
Richard Handler is professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and is author of Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec. Daniel Segal is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
Reviews for Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture
This is an extraordinarily stimulating book—not least because the authors require the reader to confront an ethnographer of another time and another place whose own insights translate directly into contemporary concerns. Its core is one of Jane Austen's great insights: that significant observation does not require a vast canvas—it requires, simply but rigorously, the capacity to make what one observes ... Read more