James Buzard
Biographic Data
| ID | 981273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Buzard |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Buzard |
| SIGNATURE | BUZARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
Notes on the Defenestration of Culture
David Copperfield and the Thresholds of Modernity
David Copperfield is a novel that has been heavily normalized by critics to support generalizations about the progressivism of Victorian fiction. Without contending that the major strand in the narrative seeks to establish David's story as that of an emerging modern self, putting both personal and more broadly historical subjugations definitively in the past, this essay tries to achieve both a better understanding of the terms in which the novel …
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope pr…
The Country of the Plague”: Anticulture and Autoethnography in Dickens's 1850s
This short paper proposes to consider the transition from Bleak House (1852–53) to Little Dorrit (1856–57) as a phase of particular significance in Dickens's debate with himself over the claims, benefits, and pitfalls of national and wider forms of belonging. I elide Hard Times (1854) because it seems to me that with the composition of Bleak House Dickens had definitively arrived at the conviction that the twenty-number monthly novel was that one…
Portable Boundaries: Trollope, Race, and Travel
Anthony Trollope earned renown as the inventor of the quintessentially English county of Barsetshire, and but few of his forty‐seven novels leave England to venture into foreign lands for any susta
Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels
On Auto-Ethnographic Authority
Widespread critiques of anthropology and advocacy for "situated knowledges" have created an atmosphere highly favorable to the rise of an autoethnography, yet use of the concept has so far been uneven, undertheorized, and largely unacknowledged. Wariness of essentialism, dissatisfaction with "culture," and confusion about the metaphors structuring our thought on group identity and ethnographic authority are important reasons why. Analyzing autoet…
Chapter 12. Notes on the Defenestration of Culture
Short Reviews
"Anywhere's Nowhere": Bleak House as Autoethnography
"Anywhere's Nowhere": Bleak House as Autoethnography James Buzard (bio) The tendency of modern enquiry is more and more towards the conclusion that if law is anywhere, it is everywhere. —E. B. Tylor 1 Within the boundaries of the tribe the writ of the same culture runs from end to end. —Bronislaw Malinowski 2 "Where would you wish to go?" she asked. "Anywhere, my dear," I replied. "Anywhere's nowhere," said Miss Jellyby, stopping perversely. "Let…
Culture for Export: Tourism and Autoethnography in Postwar Britain
“Importunate muchness”: Intimations of ethnography in James's European tours
The Beaten Track: European tourism, literature, and the ways to culture, 1800-1918
This book is a major study of European tourism during the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century. The author demonstrates the ways in which the distinction between tourist and traveller has developed and how the circulation of the two terms influenced how nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers on Europe viewed themselves and presented themselves in writing. Drawing upon a wide range of texts from literature, travel wri…
On Auto-Ethnographic Authority
Widespread critiques of anthropology and advocacy for "situated knowledges" have created an atmosphere highly favorable to the rise of an autoethnography, yet use of the concept has so far been uneven, undertheorized, and largely unacknowledged. Wariness of essentialism, dissatisfaction with "culture," and confusion about the metaphors structuring our thought on group identity and ethnographic authority are important reasons why. Analyzing autoet…
The Beaten Track: European tourism, literature, and the ways to culture, 1800-1918
This book is a major study of European tourism during the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century. The author demonstrates the ways in which the distinction between tourist and traveller has developed and how the circulation of the two terms influenced how nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers on Europe viewed themselves and presented themselves in writing. Drawing upon a wide range of texts from literature, travel wri…
“Importunate muchness”: Intimations of ethnography in James's European tours
Culture for Export: Tourism and Autoethnography in Postwar Britain
"Anywhere's Nowhere": Bleak House as Autoethnography
"Anywhere's Nowhere": Bleak House as Autoethnography James Buzard (bio) The tendency of modern enquiry is more and more towards the conclusion that if law is anywhere, it is everywhere. —E. B. Tylor 1 Within the boundaries of the tribe the writ of the same culture runs from end to end. —Bronislaw Malinowski 2 "Where would you wish to go?" she asked. "Anywhere, my dear," I replied. "Anywhere's nowhere," said Miss Jellyby, stopping perversely. "Let…
Short Reviews
Chapter 12. Notes on the Defenestration of Culture
On Auto-Ethnographic Authority
Widespread critiques of anthropology and advocacy for "situated knowledges" have created an atmosphere highly favorable to the rise of an autoethnography, yet use of the concept has so far been uneven, undertheorized, and largely unacknowledged. Wariness of essentialism, dissatisfaction with "culture," and confusion about the metaphors structuring our thought on group identity and ethnographic authority are important reasons why. Analyzing autoet…
Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope pr…
The Country of the Plague”: Anticulture and Autoethnography in Dickens's 1850s
This short paper proposes to consider the transition from Bleak House (1852–53) to Little Dorrit (1856–57) as a phase of particular significance in Dickens's debate with himself over the claims, benefits, and pitfalls of national and wider forms of belonging. I elide Hard Times (1854) because it seems to me that with the composition of Bleak House Dickens had definitively arrived at the conviction that the twenty-number monthly novel was that one…
Portable Boundaries: Trollope, Race, and Travel
Anthony Trollope earned renown as the inventor of the quintessentially English county of Barsetshire, and but few of his forty‐seven novels leave England to venture into foreign lands for any susta
David Copperfield and the Thresholds of Modernity
David Copperfield is a novel that has been heavily normalized by critics to support generalizations about the progressivism of Victorian fiction. Without contending that the major strand in the narrative seeks to establish David's story as that of an emerging modern self, putting both personal and more broadly historical subjugations definitively in the past, this essay tries to achieve both a better understanding of the terms in which the novel …
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
Notes on the Defenestration of Culture
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