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9780812241747

Frantic Panoramas

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812241747

  • ISBN10:

    0812241746

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-05-19
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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Summary

Matter, Magic, and Spirit explores the ways religious and magical beliefs of Native Americans and African Americans have been represented in a range of discourses including anthropology, comparative religion, and literature. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Nancy Bentley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, and Wharton and coeditor (with Sandra Gunning) of The Marrow of Tradition.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Analytic Instinct and the Art of the Crashp. 1
Literature and the Museum Ideap. 22
Realism and the Gordian Knot of Aesthetics and Politicsp. 69
Women and the Realism of Desirep. 109
Celebrity Warriors, Impossible Diplomats, and the Native Public Spherep. 151
Black Bohemia and the African American Novelp. 188
Wharton, Mass Travel, and the "Possible Crash"p. 218
Neurological Modernity and American Social Thoughtp. 247
Conclusion: Literary Analysis and the Perception of Incongruitiesp. 288
Notesp. 303
Indexp. 349
Acknowledgmentsp. 363
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