British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters

Ethnographic Modernism from Wells to Woolf

• Author(s): C. Snyder,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 253
• ISBN_10: 1137039477
  ISBN_13: 9781137039477
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Fiction / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... This book reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, sometimes conducted their own 'fieldwork', and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction, letters, and essays.