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Explores this delay in the development of the culture concept and its relation to the description of difference in late nineteenth-century America. The author weaves together the histories of American literature and anthropology. His study brings to life not only the regionalist fiction of the time but also revives a range of neglected materials.
"A fascinating work, bringing anthropology to bear on literary studies and giving American literature a new and hitherto under-theorized frame of reference. Evans argues that there is a definitional tension between ethnographic cultures, referred to in the plural, and humanistic culture, referred to in the singular. That tension haunts us still." - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"
Brad Evans is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.
"A fascinating work, bringing anthropology to bear on literary studies and giving American literature a new and hitherto under-theorized frame of reference. Evans argues that there is a definitional tension between ethnographic cultures, referred to in the plural, and humanistic culture, referred to in the singular. That tension haunts us still." - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"
Brad Evans is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.