This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex his
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Table of contents :
Uneven developments: "Culture," circa 2000 and 1900 --
Ethnographic locations and dislocations --
The fiction of autoethnography --
Translation and tourism in Scott's Waverley --
Anywhere's nowhere: Bleak House as metropolitan autoethnography --
Identities, locations, and media --
An Echantillon of Englishness: The Professor --
The wild English girl: Jane Eyre --
National Pentecostalism: Shirley --
Outlandish nationalism: Villette --
Eliot, interrupted --
Ethnography as interruption: Morris's News from nowhere.