Expansion, Interruption, Autoethnography: Toward Disorienting Fiction, Part 2
The thesis of my 2005 book Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels is gestured at by the three words of this essay's main title: nineteenth-century Britain's imperial expansion is the ultimate context in which to make sense of the nineteenth-cen...
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| description | The thesis of my 2005 book Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels is gestured at by the three words of this essay's main title: nineteenth-century Britain's imperial expansion is the ultimate context in which to make sense of the nineteenth-century novel's apparent commitment to an autoethnographic enterprise aimed at writing into existence a delimited and distinctive culture for the English or even the British people at a time when there was every encouragement for them to regard their way of life as exhausted in identification with a globally exportable “Civilization” or capital-C “Culture” itself. That delimiting impulse found expression in what I call the “self-interrupting” features prominent in Romantic-era and Victorian narrative. This essay considers the challenges facing a planned sequel to Disorienting Fiction that would extend that thesis from the later nineteenth century into the heyday of modernism. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/700002022-10-01T17:58:40Z Expansion, Interruption, Autoethnography: Toward Disorienting Fiction, Part 2 Buzard, James Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Section Buzard, James Buzard, James The thesis of my 2005 book Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels is gestured at by the three words of this essay's main title: nineteenth-century Britain's imperial expansion is the ultimate context in which to make sense of the nineteenth-century novel's apparent commitment to an autoethnographic enterprise aimed at writing into existence a delimited and distinctive culture for the English or even the British people at a time when there was every encouragement for them to regard their way of life as exhausted in identification with a globally exportable “Civilization” or capital-C “Culture” itself. That delimiting impulse found expression in what I call the “self-interrupting” features prominent in Romantic-era and Victorian narrative. This essay considers the challenges facing a planned sequel to Disorienting Fiction that would extend that thesis from the later nineteenth century into the heyday of modernism. 2012-04-12T18:07:46Z 2012-04-12T18:07:46Z 2009-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0029-5132 1945-8509 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70000 Buzard, J. “Expansion, Interruption, Autoethnography: Toward Disorienting Fiction, Part 2.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42.2 (2009): 261–267. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8220-4108 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2009-013 Novel: a Forum on Fiction Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Duke University Press Buzard via Mark Szarko |
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