Disorienting Fiction The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels

"This is a splendid piece of work, one that will surely invigorate the discussion of nineteenth-century British fiction. Buzard offers a commanding view of the topic, at once wide-angled and precisely detailed. The substantial introduction is a tour de force--learned, detailed, bracing and dazzling in its theoretical address. It is, by itself, worth the price of admission."--Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley "This is a wonderfully lucid, erudite and provocative book that will speak to anyone interested in the British novel, nineteenth- and twentieth-century British cultural history, or the genealogy and aspirations of contemporary anthropology. It takes issue with received wisdom on all these fronts, and it does so in graceful prose that refuses the assumption that intellectual depth can only find expression in obscurity."--James Eli Adams, Cornell UniversityBuzard, James is the author of 'Disorienting Fiction The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels', published 2005 under ISBN 9780691002323 and ISBN 0691002320.