This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for
analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study
argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an
unstable but powerful master discourse of 'culture', a discourse
that allowed writers to turn new social energies and fears into
particular kinds of authorial expertise. Crossing a range of
institutions (anthropology, literature, museums, law) and texts
(novels, ethnographies, travel books, social theory), this study
allows fiction to take its place in a web of social practices that
categorize, display and regulate what Wharton calls 'the customs of
the country'.
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