Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture

An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

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 that Austen undercuts any and all claims to "truth universally acknowledged"—that is, to objective, positive knowledge of human affairs.Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture invites the reader to confront an ethnography of another time and place whose insights have a direct bearing on contemporary concerns in the humanities and human sciences.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-11-03
Mått:149 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:304 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780847690480

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

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 signify.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 A World of MarriageChapter 3 The Natural, the Civil, and the UnnaturalChapter 4 Family, Connections, and IncestChapter 5 Hierarchies of ChoiceChapter 6 Courting Exchanges and Alter-Cultural MarriagesChapter 7 Creative Dance and the Problem of TheatricalityChapter 8 Narrating Multiple RealitiesChapter 9 Dialogue and TranslationChapter 10 But What, Then, of Reality?