This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of cu
Three conferences were held in England and California during the spring and summer of 2001 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London, and from them 15 e
This collection examines a wide variety of literature—travel, memoir, and fiction—and explores the ways travel and ideas of “culture” have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour. The sites of the
