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Author Evans, Brad.

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

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  PS217.E75 E94 2005    Available  ---
Description x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Ethnology in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and anthropology.
United States.
History.
Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
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